Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick)[2] is a broad genre of music that emerged in 1977 in the wake of punk rock. Post-punk musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a broader, more experimental approach that encompassed a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences. Inspired by punk's energy and do it yourself ethic but determined to break from rock cliches, artists experimented with styles like funk, electronic music, jazz, and dance music; the production techniques of dub and disco; and ideas from art and politics, including critical theory, modernist art, cinema and literature.[3][4] These communities produced independent record labels, visual art, multimedia performances and fanzines.

The early post-punk vanguard was represented by groups including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wire, Public Image Ltd, the Pop Group, Magazine, Joy Division, Talking Heads, the Raincoats, Gang of Four, the Cure, and the Fall.[5] The movement was closely related to the development of ancillary genres such as gothic rock, neo-psychedelia, no wave, and industrial music. By the mid-1980s, post-punk had dissipated, but it provided a foundation for the new pop movement and the later alternative and independent genres.

  1. ^ Anderson, Rick. "Broadcast to the World Review". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 11 May 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023. there was such a thing as rock-rap fusion -- but it sounded very different from the rap-inflected nu metal of the late '90s. It was more like hardcore punk or artsy post-punk with breakbeats
  2. ^ Cateforis 2011, pp. 26–27.
  3. ^ Reynolds, Simon (April 2005). "It Came From London: A Virtual Tour of Post-Punk's Roots". Time Out London. Archived from the original on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  4. ^ Reynolds 2005, p. xxxi.
  5. ^ For verification of these groups as part of the original post-punk vanguard see Heylin 2008, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Magazine and PiL, Wire; Reynolds 2013, p. 210, "... the 'post-punk vanguard'—overtly political groups like Gang of Four, Au Pairs, Pop Group ..."; Kootnikoff 2010, p. 30, "[Post-punk] bands like Joy Division, Gang of Four, and the Fall were hugely influential"; Cavanagh 2015, pp. 192–193, Gang of Four, Cabaret Voltaire, The Cure, PiL, Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division; Bogdanov, Woodstra & Erlewine 2002, p. 1337, Pere Ubu, Talking Heads; Cateforis 2011, p. 26, Devo, Throbbing Gristle, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Slits, Wire

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