Flashcards: Punk rock genres

Ska punk is a fusion music genre that combines ska music and punk rock music.

Trallpunk (Swedish for 'melodious punk') is a subgenre of punk music specially developed in Sweden.

Grebo is a word that was used at least in the East Midlands in the seventies to describe someone with an interest in Motorcycles.

Nagoya kei (名古屋系) is an early subgenre of visual kei, developed in the early-1990s music scene of Nagoya, Japan.

Melodic hardcore is a broadly defined subgenre of hardcore punk with a strong emphasis on melody in its guitar work.

Visual kei (Japanese: ヴィジュアル系 Hepburn: Vijuaru Kei, lit. "Visual Style" or "Visual System") is a movement among Japanese musicians, that is characterized by the use of varying levels of make-up, elaborate hair styles and flamboyant costumes, often, but not always, coupled with androgynous aesthetics, similar to Western glam rock.

Electropunk is a music genre combining elements of electronic music and punk rock.

2 Tone (or Two Tone) was a late-1970s ska revival in the United Kingdom led by Jerry Dammers and The Specials.

Psychobilly is a fusion genre of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rock and roll, rockabilly, and rhythm and blues.

Skate punk (also known as skate rock, skatecore and skate-thrash) is a skater subculture and a subgenre of punk rock that is named after its popularity among skaters and association with skateboarding culture.

Queercore (or homocore) is a cultural and social movement that began in the mid-1980s as an offshoot of punk.

D-beat (also known as discore or kängpunk) is a style of hardcore punk, developed in the early 1980s by imitators of Discharge, after whom the genre is named, as well as a drum beat characteristic of this subgenre.

Punk blues (or blues punk) is a fusion genre of punk rock and blues.

Oi! is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s.

Riot grrrl is an underground feminist hardcore punk movement that originated in the early 1990s in Washington State (particularly Olympia) and the greater Pacific Northwest.

Punk jazz describes the amalgamation of elements of the jazz tradition (usually free jazz and jazz fusion of the 1960s and 1970s) with the instrumentation or conceptual heritage of punk rock (typically the more experimental and dissonant strains, such as no wave and hardcore).

Anarcho-punk (or anarchist punk) is punk rock that promotes anarchism.

A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture.

Taqwacore is a subgenre of punk music dealing with Islam, its culture, and interpretation.

Gypsy punk is a hybrid musical genre that crosses traditional Romani music with punk rock.

Japanese ska is ska (スカ Suka) music made in Japan by Japanese artists with lyrics in the Japanese language or in English.

Avant-punk refers to a wave of American punk bands characterized by screeching experimentation.

Punk pathetique is a subgenre of British punk rock (principally active circa 1980–1982) that involved humour and working class cultural themes.

Psycho Country is a term referring to a musical style.

The mod revival was a music genre and subculture that started in England in 1978 and later spread to other countries (to a lesser degree).

Bandana thrash is a subgenre of thrashcore, associated with powerviolence and crossover thrash that began to explore their debt to an earlier form of extreme punk music.

Könsrock (translates to Genitalia rock) is a Swedish music genre.