Punk

The punk movement , as before his jazz and rock , is primarily a manifestation of social and cultural contestation. In the 70s , the United States and Europe, a new generation of musical artists broke with inherited '60s rock to express in a more raw music its uncertainty about the future (social exclusion , wars, oil crisis ) and its rejection of the established order .

Young low cartiers London fall into band and see the future as non-existent in this world threatened by natural disasters , environmental disasters , wars and economic crises . We are witnessing the emergence of a movement of global scale , the punk movement called "No Future." For punk, nothing really matters , this state is called nihilism . This movement aims at no point be sold . The " No Future" slogan stems from the fact that punk is a nihilistic movement. Punk would be the result of hippie protest movement . These young punks want to break all insurgents are provocative , rowdy . They do this to try to get out of their urban gloom.

The famous slogan " No future ", " Anarchy " or " Punk is not dead " then crystallize the frustrations of a segment of the youth that still manages to turn his despair and vitality in a unique cultural movement : punk !

The premise of the "punk" appear in the U.S. in the early 70s. While the hippie wave already swept past few years, many young Americans who are new in their garage to the joys of music. Among them, a young generation of artists makes a break with a rock became , she says, too conventional and offers a more basic (but very worked) music and more subversive texts. This is called the " garage punk " . Among the pioneers of the genre there are a few heads today (very) well known: the Velvet Underground (1967) , Iggy (Pop) and the Stooges ( first concert in 1967) , MC5 (1969) , The New York Dolls ( 1970) , Patti Smith ?

The British explosion

When the music is exported to the mid- 70s on British soil , there is a shock. Young English appropriated immediately and radically codes of the American movement . The minimalist musical arrangements are more aggressive , the game scene often turns to brawl , dress style becomes highly provocative and texts explicitly question the cultural values ​​of decency and respect for the established order.

This mutation "punk garage " punk took place in 1977. The shock comes from the band The Sex Pistols , led by singer Johnny Rotten and bassist Sid Vicious. The latter, for its excesses and its lifestyle, despite him become the global icon of the punk movement .

In one year, the punk wave turns into a tsunami. The Sex Pistols in their wake a generation of rebellious and talented young British who include The Clash, The Stranglers , Damned or Buzzcocks , to name only the best known.

Vivienne Isabel Swire , called Vivienne Westwood is a British fashion designer born in Glossop , Derbyshire on 8 April 1941. In 1970 , Vivienne Westwood and her partner Malcolm McLaren opened a vintage clothing shop in London at 430 Kings Road, they called Let It Rock. Two years later , the creators rename their trade Too Fast to Live , Too Young to Die . They then sell clothing rock 'n ' roll adorned with chains, pins, razor blades, or plaids and which are anarchists join

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