The history of the punk subculture involves the history of punk rock, ideology, fashion, visual art, literature, dance, and film. Since emerging in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1970s, the punk subculture has spread around the globe and evolved into a number of different forms. The history of punk plays important part in the history of subcultures in the 20th century.
Read more about History Of The Punk Subculture: Origins, Late 1970: Diversification, 1980s: Further Diversification, Alternative and Indie Legacy, 1990s: American Revival, 2000s
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“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)
“Its a very delicate surgical operationto cut out the heart without killing the patient. The history of our country, however, is a very tough old patient, and well do the best we can.”
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“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
—David Hume (17111776)
“When theres no future
How can there be sin
Were the flowers in the dustbin
Were the poison in your human machine
Were the future
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God Save the Queen”
—The Sex Pistols, British punk band (1976-1979)