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This five page paper is a sample speech for punk rock and the effect over the years on politics. Many groups such as the Sex Pistols and Rancid are exampled, with a brief examination of the history of punk rock included. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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stated that protest music did not die with the hippy movement of the sixties, but rather experienced an evolution while continuing on with its policy of making social commentary through
music. Thus, punk rock was born. Several bands come to mind from the seventies, most notably the punk rock band called the Dead Kennedys. They and others like them used
their music as a platform for their ideas about societal norms and challenged those norms with their lyrics and strident harmonies. Many bands of the 70s especially challenged the authority
of the political machines and began to dress in anti-establishment type of clothes. It can be said that while punk got its start in the late sixties, the seventies gave
it safe haven. "Punk rock, with its high-volume dissonance, driving rhythms and confrontational style, started in the U.S. in the mid-1970s, with bands like the Ramones and New York
Dolls leading the way,"says Nicole Colson, a reporter for Socialist Online. "It crossed the ocean and took off in Britain in 1977 as the perfect antidote for the bland lies
of daily life--and the equally bland mainstream rock and roll that dominated the airwaves"(Colson, 2002). Imagine the splash that punk rock made when it did hit the scene in
the seventies. It had to have gained some attention for itself and the issues that were being addressed simply because it was new, it was different and it was peculiar.
And, in fact, it has to be stated that were it not for the ways paved by punk rock, the next evolution would not have taken place. A good case
can be made for punk rock having evolved into grunge, goth, and ska. But the sixties and the seventies dont have a corner on the protest movement instigated by
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