21 Facts About Punk subculture

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Punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature and film.

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Punk subculture ethos is primarily made up of beliefs such as non-conformity, anti-authoritarianism, anti-corporatism, a do-it-yourself ethic, anti-consumerist, anti-corporate greed, direct action and not "selling out".

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Punk subculture aesthetics determine the type of art punks enjoy, which typically has underground, minimalist, iconoclastic and satirical sensibilities.

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Punk subculture has generated a considerable amount of poetry and prose, and has its own underground press in the form of zines.

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The punk subculture influenced other underground music scenes such as alternative rock, indie music, crossover thrash and the extreme subgenres of heavy metal .

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Punk subculture is centered on a loud, aggressive genre of rock music called punk rock, usually played by bands consisting of a vocalist, one or two electric guitarists, an electric bassist and a drummer.

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Punk subculture nihilism was expressed in the use of "harder, more self-destructive, consciousness-obliterating substances like heroin, or methamphetamine".

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Punk subculture created a new cultural space for androgyny and all kinds of gender expression.

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Punk subculture aesthetics determine the type of art punks enjoy, usually with underground, minimalistic, iconoclastic and satirical sensibilities.

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Punk subculture art uses the mass production aesthetic of Andy Warhol's Factory studio.

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Punk subculture played a hand in the revival of stencil art, spearheaded by Crass.

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Punk subculture has generated a considerable amount of poetry and prose.

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Punk subculture has its own underground press in the form of punk zines, which feature news, gossip, cultural criticism, and interviews.

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Punk subculture poets include: Richard Hell, Jim Carroll, Patti Smith, John Cooper Clarke, Seething Wells, Raegan Butcher, and Attila the Stockbroker.

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The punk subculture has inspired the cyberpunk and steampunk literature genres, and has even contributed to classical scholarship.

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Discrimination against punk subculture is explored with her photographs in the book; these girls who are not mainstream, but "beautiful and talented".

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The early 1990s grunge subculture was a fusion of punk anti-fashion ideals and metal-influenced guitar sounds.

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Punk subculture arrived slowly in South Africa during the 1970s when waves of British tradesman welcomed by the then-apartheid government brought cultural influences like the popular British music magazine NME, sold in South Africa six weeks after publication.

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Punk subculture provides young white men the opportunity to explore and express their minority identity.

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Post-apartheid punk subculture continues to be active in South African politics, organising a 2000 festival called Punks Against Racism at Thrashers Statepark in Pretoria.

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Punk subculture originated in Cuba in the 1980s, referred to as Los Frikis.

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