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Punk rock, as a genre, is decided to have started in the mid-70s. Although preceded by '60s bands such as [[MC5]] and Iggy Pop and [[The Stooges]], the genre truly began to take root around 1974, with the slow ascendancy of bands such as [[The Ramones]], the [[New York Dolls]], and [[Television (band)|Television]] in New York City.
The styles of these bands focused on a [[Three Chords and the Truth|stripped down aesthetic]] and a rejection of establishment thinking for their respective decades and by subverting audience's expectations of music and performance. How they accomplished this varied widely from performer to performer. [[The Clash]] focused on political change, [[The Sex Pistols]] focused on generally disrupting modern ideas of propriety (as noted by their famed attempt to perform "God Save The Queen" on the Thames during [[British Royal Family|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s Silver Jubilee), and [[GG Allin]] focused on throwing his shit at people. [[Suicide (band)]] caused audiences to physically assault them ''simply by using a synthesizer.''
Punk fashion was mostly popularized by Malcolm McLaren, manager of [[The Sex Pistols]], and his girlfriend, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. Initially based off of the styles of Television bassist Richard Hell (who McLaren managed at one point and became better known as the frontman for The Voidoids), it focuses on torn T-shirts and jeans, leather jackets and other industrious clothes, and unconventional use of [[Casual Kink|everyday objects with a kinky subtext]], such as leather cuffs and dog collars. Thanks to the popularized DIY aesthetic, the modification of such clothes with everyday objects (such as chains, spikes, and safety pins) as well as band patches also became popular.
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* [[Pop Punk]], as typified by bands like [[Green Day]], [[Screeching Weasel]], [[The Ramones]] and [[Blink 182]].
* Horror punk, as typified by [[The Misfits]]
* Street punk, very working class and 'laddish' as typified by GBH and (at times) [[Rancid]]. Street punk is also closely related to Oi!, a genre that is almost entirely separated by the speed of the music, with Oi! being the slower of the two. See also [[
* Celtic punk, as typified by [[Flogging Molly]], [[The Pogues]], and the [[Dropkick Murphys]]
* Folk punk, as typified by Against Me! or [[Andrew Jackson Jihad]].
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