The punk rock genre started developing around 1974-1976. It originated in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. The genre mainly rooted from Garage Rock, but other contributing genres were protopunk. The punk genre tried to avoid getting caught up in the extremes of mainstream rock music. Most typical punk bands had fast paced, hard edged music which were quite short and often incorporated political, anti-establishment lyrics. Although this genre of music was quite popular in the 1970's, it took on the role of DIY ethics, this meant that most bands would self-produce their recordings and distribute them.
Towards the late 1970's bands such as The Ramones (New York City), The Sex Pistols (London) and The Clash (London) were recognized as the frontline of a new musical movement. In 1977, we saw Punk become a massive cultural signifier for the United Kingdom. Even though Punk music was growing more and more popular, it still rejected being associated with mainstream music. Therefore you found bands like The Ramones playing in local scenes rather than well known locations. With this genre of music, came a punk associated subculture, known for there rebellious youth and distinctive clothing style.
In 1980, punk music had changed slightly. It had become much more aggressive with the rise of hardcore punk. Artists that linked themselves with the punk genre took a new spin on it. They created other sub genres e.g. post-punk. By the end of the century punk had finally become mainstream with the rise of bands such as Green Day.
As you can see all of these punk/rock music videos inco-oparate the band aslong with having a plot line to the video aswell, which is what my music video also does. I thought to use these ideas in my video as thgenre is very similair and then I could relate it too how even though punk music has evolved and chanthe approach and the way it is represented has not.
This picture shows the clothing and different bands that could link to the band that I am using, also Reading Festival is well known to host rock bands in its line up which is why I put that on the picture to show what kind of audience would listen to my band. The clothing they wear is all very similar, they all seem to like dark colours e.g. grey and black. Also during concert they wouold wear a supporting bands t shirt to also have a link to the same genre but different artists.
I'd strongly recomment you to upload a selection of music videos marketing the artists you discuss in your post, with captions clearly identifying generic aspects of mise-en-scene.
ReplyDeleteFor higher marks you can also include an explanation of the ideology of the artists with evidence from lyrics, costume, location, action.
Billie you need to be careful about the definition of punk! Costume and a gritty in your face anti establishment delivery/style/costume = punk. The music videos you posted for Green Day and Young Guns suggest rock rather than punk because of the main stream style. These two music videos could be considered as main stream punk but the appearance and style of Green Day and Young Guns seems many miles from the original bands like The Sex Pistols. Perhaps GD and YG may be considered pop punk! Genre is often difficult to define, so research is important, Wikipedia has a useful webpage which came up when I googled "contemporary punk bands"
ReplyDeleteTo strengthen I suggest you analyse The Ramones music video focusing on representation of gender, for example Goodwin's principle of voyeuristic treatment of the female body.