The following is an incomplete list of
punk rock music festivals
A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or hol ...
. This list may have some overlap with list of rock festivals and list of heavy metal festivals. Punk is a
rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States a ...
genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in
garage rock
Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or 60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals. The sty ...
and other forms of what is now known as
protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream
1970s
File:1970s decade montage.jpg, Clockwise from top left: U.S. President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office following the Watergate scandal in 1974; The United States was still involved in the Vietnam War ...
rock. By 1976 the first festivals were being organized.
[Christgau, Robert]
"''Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk'', by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain" (review)
, ''New York Times Book Review'', 1996. Retrieved on January 17, 2007.
Festivals
Gallery
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See also
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Punk rock
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List of music festivals
A list of music festivals around the world. A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, ...
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List of gothic festivals
The following is an incomplete list of gothic festivals, which encapsulates music festivals focused on gothic music. Goth festivals may feature genres such as gothic rock and gothic metal, as well as industrial music. The festivals also tend ...
Further reading
* Christgau, Robert
"''Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk'', by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain" (review) ''New York Times Book Review'', 1996.
References
{{Punk rock
Punk
Punk or punks may refer to:
Genres, subculture, and related aspects
* Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres
* Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture s ...
Heavy metal festivals