MUSIC ARCHIVES Punk ’77: The Politics of Punk The Clash and the Pistols have established social realism as an essential part of punk ideology, but this does not make their music the “direct ...

Punk and its offshoots have often gotten a bad rep in the media and society at large, in response to not only the ideology of their movements but also their appearance. Extremist submovements, like ...

The hairstyles, the spitting, and the noise of punk rock might not seem conservative, but some consider the ideology behind it to be far more conservative than any other genre. Some evidence: The ...