Essays on Punk Subculture

History of Fashion

Dick Hebdige’s article “Subculture: The Unnatural Break” poses the matter of the role of subculture in a conventional society. The article indicates that media is presenting subcultures such as punk, as threatening to the traditional societal conventions, to the generally accepted sense of morality, lifestyle or fashion. The arguments that the author uses vary from references to the members of subculture as different individuals that create semantic disorders to conversion and the erasure of the “other” to social norms. The article depicts how media techniques are used to highlight a subculture as negative to social standards. Hebdige suggests ...

Introduction

People, as social creatures, tend to unite in groups that have something common: they may have a similar system of values, behavior or lifestyle that is different from the dominant culture to which they belong. In social studies, the word “subculture” refers to a part of a public group that differs from predominant society. This paper is aimed at analyzing subculture of punk, the role of media and style in punk youth subculture. From the perspective of cultural studies, a subculture is associated with a group of people that do not contradict against the values of traditional culture but ...

Question 1

Music is famous of its exclusive influence to the society. Various forms of music are helpful in identifying with different groups of people in the world. The world would be extremely boring without the sweetness of music. People connect with different forms of music that make their social life extremely bearable and enjoyable. However, music as a major element in the social world is bringing exclusive influence in the world where all people are wishing for a certain class of music. As a result, different forms of music are creating subcultures within themselves to let different people identify with their values as ...

Origin of Punk Subculture

The punk subculture incorporates a diversity of ideologies, forms of expression in the form of art, fashion, literature and visual art. The embodiment of punk subculture is in the form of rock musica called punk rock (Surhone, 2011). The Punk subculture origin springs from New York and the rest of East coast during the late 1960s’ and later in the mid 1970s. The rock bands called “New York Dolls” and “The Ramones” were the brain child behind this new style of rock music. Scholars such as Keegan (2007) in the article Detailed Journey into the Punk Subculture: Punk Outreach in ...