Punk

• Punk


  American Punk Rock developed in the mid-1970's
• Punk Rockers


  • Rejected the pompous and pretentious elements of dominant Rock Culture
  • Aimed to shock
• The Ramones

  • Used Nazi symbols
  • Played songs with titles such as 'I Don't Care', 'I Don't Wanna Be Tamed' and 'I Don't Wanna Sniff some Glue'
• The Ramones believed commercialisation had destroyed American music and that the biggest and most popular bands had sold out to money and had become corrupted
• Punk metamorphosing


  Into new kinds of music such as No Wave and New Wave
• No Wave


  Merged in the underground clubs of Downtown New York
• No Wave Bands

  • The Contortions
  • DNA
• Teenage Jesus and The Jerks (No Wave Band)


  • Refused to perform songs lasting more than 30 seconds in order to reject a commercial sound
• New Wave Bands


  Took Punk into a more commercial direction, combining Punk Guitars with Disco Drum Machines
• New Wave Band


  • Blondie
• Blondie took the new sound into the mainstream with their number-one single 'Heart of Glass' in 1979