Youth Culture - Punks

Punks first broke into the scene in the 60s with bands such as 'The Sonics' who could neither sing or play instruments very well, but it was different to the other genres and sounds that were going around at the time (The Beatles, The Kinks, Motown) and the youth of course wanted to rebel. They broke the conventional rules, and once one band did that and whole flood of them joined in with people such as Iggy Pop & The Stooges and The Ramones. The audiences and bands wanted to be as different as they could be to anything else around at the time (The Beatles, The Kinks ect).

Not only with music, but also in fashion and so the most outrageouss fashions came about, this shocked the older generations and they disapproved of this. One of the most famous fashion designers of the 70s is Vivienne Westwod who is still designing today.

Punk music is one of the biggest revalations that has broken all the bountries. Youth saw this as an outlet and, as well as breaking the rules of music, they broke the rules of the law at times as well. This produced many riots and lots of violence - of course this all got blamed on youth which is a little stereotypical.

Many of the punks believe in 'Anarchy in the UK' (also a song by the Sex Pistols) and joined riots against the police and the government for many reasons, such as not having a enough freedom.