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products of low income areas. What I’m gonna be talking about is how and why the same things affect both subcultures. Both are viewed negatively, but are positive outlets for at risk youth. Rap music and Punk has contributed more than it’s negatively impacted. The kind of questions i'm researching off of are, why do the same things affect two totally different subcultures ?…

On March 26th, I attended a concert at Sidewinder in Austin, Texas. The venue hosted three bands: The Sweethearts, Two Tens, and The Dollyrots. All three were female-fronted punk rock bands, but The Sweethearts were the only band that was local. The other two were on tour with each other. All three of the bands knew each other and have played together at other venues frequently. This event held indoors. Sidewinder’s interior is set up as an open bar. When you walk in the bar is to the right,…

3, 2017 Thesis and Credible Bibliographic Sources 1.1 Thesis The “straight edge punk” categorization within contemporary musical history is a subculture of hardcore punk rock which celebrates the musical themes of the 1970s and early-1980s hardcore punk scene but does so in a way that steers clear of the traditional “excesses” of the punk subculture, such as alcohol, recreational drug use, and oftentimes promiscuous sex. In viewing the emergence of the punk culture and punk music as an…

rebellious fashion choices. Malcolm wanted the scene to expand and took it upon himself to take up a project he thought could spread punk fashion. This project was the Sex Pistols. The Sex Pistols were a thrash punk band that wore copious amounts of leather and spiked their hair. In a short amount of time they gathered a large following, including the…

IV By Chuck Klosterman There are so many inquisitive people living around the world. The majority of them usually don’t have an insight on what happens on Earth. In the book IV, Chuck Klosterman interviews many people and makes some commentaries about American culture. The book is divided into three sections; “Things that are true”, “Things that might be true”, and “Something that isn’t true.” Klosterman wants to separate these articles so he can give the audience an interesting perspective of…

United Kingdom in 1970s, most importantly, we need to revise the economic situation of that time, which was one of the most significant triggering mechanisms that changed the way people, mainly youth, approached living. The emergence of the punk subculture is a very interesting phenomenon and thought-provoking time period, which gave birth to a unique ideology, way of life, style of clothing and most importantly many punk bands, which were either…

Biker Boyz Critique DeWaun Bowman Methodist University The movie Biker Boyz is very powerful and it carries a strong message throughout the entire movie. It’s about the underground world of motorcycle clubs and not so legal street racing. A young man who is 18 years old named Kid (Derek Luke). Started his own motorcycle club named “Biker Boyz” after witnessing the death of his dad “Slick Will” at one of these races. He wants to be the one in charge the one everyone idealized…

This time period was soon filled with outlandish and aggressive music that allowed the people of the 70’s and 80’s to redefine themselves as well as create a new depth to the sound of music. Judith S. Baughman, author of the Master Series, writes in the article “The Punk Rock and The New Wave Movement” that “Punk was a do-it-yourself movement that was about seizing the moment, discarding history, breaking the rules, inventing new ones, and taking a stand (even a wrong one) whenever possible”…

Punk Rock Here Today Gone Tomorrow Love it; hate it, Punk Rock made its debut in the 70’s starting with a simple beat, a tap on the drums or a guitar strumming, and there it was. Punk rock is born. This rock music genre fad came to reality during a time of frustration among the young generation. Rooting in a garage rock band imagery with the deliberate cultivation of violence, deviance, loud, vulgar, and rebellious lyrics, this style of music can be distinguished as hard-edged (Charlton…

Reimagining the Past and Shaping the Future The suffix -Punk brings to mind things like costume jewelry, excessive use of gears as decoration, and pseudo-Victorian fashion, but it’s far deeper than that. There are dozens of individual group operating under the -Punk term, with Steampunk probably being the most well known. Solarpunk is a new player in the community, with its fair share of similarities and differences from the other -Punk communities. Though Steampunk and Solarpunk share a…