It became "hardcore" (some people will argue that "hardcore" and "hardcore punk" are two different things I'm not sure I agree with them, but I like them). It came back to an America without much class conflict, but to the first or second generation that grew up in an era of mass suburbanization and these kids were angry and bored. So these Sex Pistols and Clash and the Damned records are coming and people are buying them and thinking "Oh shit I can do this!" and copying the styles the see on the album sleeves and in newspaper coverage. This is still a distinctly urban movement, art school kids and junkies at Whiskey A-Go-Go, but you know LA and it's starting to get more suburbanized. Bands like the Germs, pre-Henry Rollins Black Flag, X, etc. #1 is the LA scene (the book We Got the Neutron Bomb chronicles this part). It comes back to America and does a couple of interesting things. So Britain turned this art school New York scene, and turned it into class conflict and shocking the stodgy, mainstream society (most people agree that the Sex Pistols screaming "Anarchy in the UK" wasn't meant to be a political statement, but a shocking one). I know less about England (there are books on it, I just haven't read them-uhh This is England is a movie about this time period) Then there was this the first British hey-dey when punk really first crossed over into the mainstream around '77 (Sex Pistols, the Damned, the Clash), then England and America take pretty different route-England has a strong Anarchist scene (Crass being the poster child, but Chumbawumba, for example, was also part of this scene) and also a big more working class scene associated with streetpunk/Oi! (bands like the Angelic Upstarts, Sham 69, etc). The first American hey-day was in the early 1975-ish with the first New York scene around the venue CBGB's (the Ramones, Blondie, Television, etc.) (the book on this is Please Kill Me and From the Velvets to the Voidoids). It's hard because punk has had several hey-days. I posted a big bibliography of the books on punk here once, but I can't seem to find it now it was in response to some kid asking for help with an assignment is all I remembered, but there's a surprisingly thick secondary literature on this stuff (mostly geographically based like Dance of Days or We Got the Neutron Bomb or Please Kill Me, but some books like Our Band Could Be Your Life and American Hardcore transcend this). That they were different from how it was for us." New generations spring up that consider some, but not all, of the last generation influential. ![]() One problem is it's incredibly generational, in reading any account of punk (and there are a lot), there's often a point, where the band in questions says, "And then I just had a realization that the new kids just didn't get it. I mean, how would you say "What happened to rock and roll"? What happened to hip-hop? First, let's just acknowledge punk still exists, well past the 1993 cut-off for the sub. I'm not sure what you mean quite "What happened to punk?" because it's hard to say. ![]() ![]() At my college, we had a mandatory core curriculum, and my group of punk kids would give "Common 'Core" lectures about the history of punk and hard core (get it?) to each other about various topics (I gave the inaugural lecture, "Boston Straight-Edge: 1983-2005").
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