punk rockn.
/ˌpʌŋk ˈrɒk/, U.S. /ˈpəŋk ˈrɑk/ Originally U.S.
Originally: rock music played in a fast, aggressive, or unpolished manner. In later use: spec. a genre of rock music originating in the late 1970s, characterized by a deliberately outrageous or confrontational attitude, energetic (and often chaotic) performance, and (frequently) simple or repetitive song structures; the subculture or style associated with this music.
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1970 Chicago Tribune 22 Mar. g4 [Ed] Sanders does this particularly well in his first solo album for Reprise records, ‘Sanders' Truckstop’, which he describes as ‘punk rock—redneck sentimentality—my own past updated to present day reality.’
1971 D. Marsh in Creem May 43/3 He's [sc. Rudy Martinez is] doing the knee-drop, and the splits and every other James Brown move. He's the only one in punk-rock who's still got 'em and he's makin' a comeback.
1973 Fusion Jan. 47 Punk rock top 20.
1975 New Yorker 26 May 6/2 On Tuesday, May 27, Manhattan Transfer returns and begins doing its thirties, forties, and fifties routines opposite Canadian punk-rock singer Lewis Furey.
1976 New Musical Express 21 Feb. 31/2 A quarter of spiky teenage misfits..playing 60's styled white punk rock.
1976 Listener 23 Dec. 847/2 The Pistols are..the best known of the ‘new-wave’, or ‘punk-rock’ groups.
1979 Fortune 23 Apr. 59/2 At one extreme are hard rock, acid rock, and more recently punk rock—all characterized by the souped-up, violent sound of blaring electric guitars.
1986 Sunday Express Mag. 14 Sept. 14/1 Yet punk rock is now perceived as the greatest watershed in British popular music..since the Beatles.
1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State ii. 59 Its do-it-yourself, open-access strategy was repeatedly compared to the anti-musicianship ethics of punk rock.
2006 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 21 Oct. w19 Uplifting and anthemic punk rock from former Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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