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Rock music from the 1960s to mid-1970s
- Proto-punk (or protopunk) is rock music from the 1960s to mid-1970s that foreshadowed the punk rock movement.
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Proto-punk (or protopunk) is rock music from the 1960s to mid-1970s that foreshadowed the punk rock movement. A retrospective label, the musicians involved were generally not originally associated with each other and came from a variety of backgrounds and styles; together, they anticipated many of punk's musical and thematic attributes.
Proto-punk refers to a small group of groundbreaking, largely uncategorizable bands who began to emerge in the late '60s, up to the point when punk itself became a phenomenon (around 1975-76).
Proto-punk, or pre-punk, laid the foundations of punk rock, yet it has not always been obvious which artists contributed as forerunners of the 1970s genre and many important bands have been forgotten. The genre now known as proto-punk is intimately linked with 1960s garage rock.
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May 31, 2018 · We count down the five most seminal proto-punk records of all time to explain exactly what the genre is. The Sonics – Here Are the Sonics (1965) Bridging the link between the early rock‘n’roll of Chuck Berry and Little Richard to the rapidly expanding garage rock sound at the time, The Sonics’ debut full-length exploded with an ...
- Gloria Brancatisano
Aug 31, 2016 · Punk liked to posit itself as a year zero, an existential yell rising up out of nothing more than pure opposition to the staid aspects of the mid-’70s music scene. In this year of punk celebrations we’re awash with images, reminiscences and tributes rehashing and repeating the idea of punk as a singular phenomenon.
Nov 5, 2015 · Treble takes a trip back in time and looks at 10 essential proto-punk tracks, featuring Patti Smith, Love, The Stooges and The Modern Lovers.
Before there was Punk Rock, there was PROTO-PUNK, a largely retrospective term for a genre that blossomed between 1963 and 1976: a raw, energetic, frenetic relative of Garage Rock where Three Chords and the Truth were the ammo and rebellion was the spirit.
