Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 112. Chapters: Punk rock, Situationist International, Guerrilla communication, Underground press, Black market, Bohemian style, CrimethInc., Heavyweight Dub Champion, Queercore, Jinx Titanic, Bohemianism, Bizarro fiction, Psychogeography, Alternative fashion, Culture jamming, The Haters, Basque Radical Rock, Rivethead, Hamilton Underground Film Festival, Lowbrow, Los Angeles Free Press, Household electricity approach, Hakim Bey, Emit Snake-Beings, Speakeasy, Grupo Cine Liberación, Underground music, Kalonji Jama Changa, Last Hours, Kris Saknussemm, Brighton Voice, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Underground hip hop, The Subterraneans, Operation Mindfuck, The Party at Kitty and Stud's, Cult following, Guerrilla librarian, Alisson gothz, Guerrilla gig, Stic.man, Spiv, Mwalim, Rox, Cabaret Voltaire, Bullseye Art, Animal Farm, Shut Up, Little Man!, King Mob, BIT, Anthony Lovett, Philadelphia Free Press, London Free School, Institute for Unpopular Culture, The Great Speckled Bird, La Luz de Jesus, Better Books, Bugle, Garfield Thomas Watertunnel, Basement show, The Paper, Afro-punk, International Poetry Incarnation, Nicholas Albery, Looking Glass Workshop, Nihil Pop Organization, English underground, Chinese ambient music, Compendium Books, Samisdat, Independent Eye, Bananafish Magazine, Centro Iberico, Prague underground, Bomb Culture. Excerpt: Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. Punk bands created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics. Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produced recordings and distributed them through informal channels. By late 1976, bands such as the Ramones, in New York City, and the Sex Pistols and The Clash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement. The following year saw punk rock spreading around the world, and it became a major cultural phenomenon in the United Kingdom. For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. An associated punk subculture emerged, expressing youthful rebellion and characterized by distinctive styles of clothing and adornment and a variety of anti-authoritarian ideologies. By the beginning of the 1980s, faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and Oi! had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a broad range of other variations, giving rise to post-punk and the alternative rock movement. By the turn of the century, pop punk had been adopted by the mainstream, as bands such as Green Day and The Offspring brought the genre widespread popularity. The Ramones' 1976 debut album laid down the musical "blueprint for punk", while its cover image had a similarly formative influence on punk visual style.The first wave of punk rock aimed to be aggressively modern, distancing itself from the bombast and sentimentality of early 1970s rock. According to Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone, "In its initial form, a lot of stuff was innovative and exciting. Unfortunately, what happens is that peopl
