Punk

Punk is a very broad subculture with varying smaller subcultures that come from it, all with different ideologies and styles. Punk started in the mid-seventies and had three specific areas where it was most influential- New York City, London and Los Angeles. Punk ideologies stem from its music, art and fashion. The involvement of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McClaren are key to the fashion side of punk, wearing the famous “bondage pants” and t shirts with Nazi signs. They were out to shock. Punk art work was deliberately vulgar, much like its fashion; blocking words out and having a cut and paste aesthetic, the Sex Pistols album cover for Never Mind The Bollocks is a good of example of this.

Post-Punk came in the eighties and was music scene which was more experimental and complex than punk, citing bands like The Cure and The Fall.

With certain political issues in the air at the moment, there has been a resurgence of activism and protests which links to both the punk and rave culture. There are also a core group of anarchists who have come out of the woodwork for these protests, and anarchists were linked to punk era.