Punk Music Research Paper

In the 1970s what is known today as punk rock emerged in mainstream music in the UK as punk and as a more toned down style new wave in the United states. Various artists associated punk include Sex Pistol, the Buzzcocks and the Clash. Most of the albums and singles from this genre of music were placed in the top of British charts. Punk appeared as a type of deviation of rock characterized by loud insistent sound with aggressive protest lyrics. Punk culture was distinguished by the outrageous dressing style and behavior that was somewhat seen as deviant.
The origins of punk in the United states can be accredited to the band Velvet Underground whose music depicted how beauty can be found in ugliness. Their dark lyrics touched on issues of loneliness,
In attempt to reshape that image the commercial music business reintroduced it as New wave. New Wave music was meant to show the loneliness and impersonality associated with urban life. The Talking Heads became stars under the New wave and through the help of television broadcast achieved a broad commercial success. However other bands like the Boston based Cars and Tom petty and the Heartbreakers became an even greater success as they were broadcasted on many radios stations across the country. It is interesting how in the 1980s US mainstream music barely accustomed punk even though its most important elements came from the American underground music scenes in New York. This means in order for Punk to be accepted as mainstream music it had to be adopted by the British music scene first, and relabeled New Wave. Which is a similar pattern with Rock music having to be sang by a white artist in order to be acceptable for audiences even though rock music originated from African American culture in the