The Punk as a musical style: it was born in the mid 70’s in the Great Britain with the first popular punk musical groups like the Ramones, The Sex Pistols or the Clash. It’s included in the rock style and its characteristics are:
1. The use of distorsionated noisy guitars with a loud sound.
2. The fast rhythm, beat and simple melodies. Normally, the songs are of short duration
3. The violent voice of the singer which usually starts to shout in the middle of the song.
The punk style was divided in more musical styles, but principally, it becomes of the garage rock: Hardcore punk, Psychobilly, Pop-punk, Anarco-punk…
The word “punk” has a despective meaning like rubbish, lazy and slag.
The punk rised of the people which were angry or unhappy with the society. They thought that the society and its structure was all a lie only for win money. They were contrary to the cultural opression, the moral and the things that were considerated correct. They wanted to break the rules.
Later, the punk became a style of life and ideology, with its own aesthetics (althought it wasn’t considerated the most important). The punk ideology is related to the anarchy (no government and laws neither) and the antifascism. Their slogan was “there’s no future” because they thought that with that society there wasn’t progress.
They used to had long, high and colourful peaks in the hair. The clothes were colourful too, specially the trousers which were checkered. They wear black leather jackets with spikes, belt with spikes too and boots with edge of iron. They wear piercings and tatoos.
Actually the punk musical groups are more comercial than before, but the normal punk people wear the same clothes than in then, moreover the ideology is the same too. They all are very rebels.
