When most people think of punks, they usually think of a bunch of goons that don’t care about anything and just want to smoke cigs and do drugs all day, but this is very far from the truth. Punks, despite their reputation, were highly active in multiple social movements, such as the environmental movement. While caring about the environment is usually attributed to the hippie movement, and rightfully so, the punks had their own, more aggressive way of conveying their message about environmental destruction. The band “Reagan Youth” is a perfect example of the punk approach to the environmental movement. The band’s name come the Hitler Youth, which blindly followed their leader’s orders, and pokes fun at how many of the younger people in America …show more content…
Cattle Decapitation was founded in 1996 and is still making music today, their most recent album The Anthropocene Extinction reached the top 100 in the US charts, and was number 5 in the Top Rock Albums charts. The album focuses on mankind's effect on the environment, and how if we do not change our ways soon, the human race is doomed to extinction. One of their songs off of that album is named “Pacific Grim” and is about how we are destroying the Pacific Ocean in countless ways. It opens with the lyrics “A nuclear accident, Vomits into the ocean, An island of garbage, Forged by the discarded, The constant trawling, Modifying habitats, What the fuck are we doing?”. Already, many environmental disasters are referenced: Nuclear waste leaking into the ocean, destroying ecosystems; The island of garbage the size of texas that is floating in the Pacific Ocean, killing fish, turtles, and many other mammals; and lastly, overfishing, which is decimating native fish populations and is causing many species to get closer and closer to extinction. All of this is referenced within the first thirty seconds of the song. The final line of the opening lyrics, “What the fuck are we doing”, ties back in with the sentiment that all the other bands previously mentioned have: we know we’re destroying the environment, we know what we’re doing is wrong, why don’t we care and why are we doing it? The chorus of the song shows that the band feels that the human race is naturally destructive and evil, which can be seen in the lyrics “They never stood a chance, Against this sick romance, We have with every living being, We have with every fucking thing”. These lyrics show that the band believes that the human race has a “sick romance” with killing everything around us. This sentiment can also be seen in another song off of the same album, called “Not Suitable for Life”.
This darkly satiric poem is about cultural imperialism. Dawe uses an extended metaphor: the mother is America and the child represents a younger, developing nation, which is slowly being imbued with American value systems. The figure of a mother becomes synonymous with the United States. Even this most basic of human relationships has been perverted by the consumer culture. The poem begins with the seemingly positive statement of fact 'She loves him ...’. The punctuation however creates a feeling of unease, that all is not as it seems, that there is a subtext that qualifies this apparently natural emotional attachment. From the outset it is established that the child has no real choice, that he must accept the 'beneficence of that motherhood', that the nature of relationships will always be one where the more powerful figure exerts control over the less developed, weaker being. The verb 'beamed' suggests powerful sunlight, the emotional power of the dominant person: the mother. The stanza concludes with a rhetorical question, as if undeniably the child must accept the mother's gift of love. Dawe then moves on to examine the nature of that form of maternal love. The second stanza deals with the way that the mother comforts the child, 'Shoosh ... shoosh ... whenever a vague passing spasm of loss troubles him'. The alliterative description of her 'fat friendly features' suggests comfort and warmth. In this world pain is repressed, real emotion pacified, in order to maintain the illusion that the world is perfect. One must not question the wisdom of the omnipotent mother figure. The phrase 'She loves him...' is repeated. This action of loving is seen as protecting, insulating the child. In much the same way our consumer cultur...
Patricia Young’s poem Boys is a representation of implied heteronormacy in society. Young uses tropes and schemes such as allusion, metaphors and irony to convey the ways in which heterosexuality is pushed onto children from a young age. Poetry such as Boys is a common and effective medium to draw attention to the way society produces heteronormativity through gendered discourses that are typically used to understand sex. Boys does an excellent job at drawing its readers to the conclusion that it is an ironic poem trying to emphasize the over-excessive ways in which we express heterosexuality in daily life.
The term Punk was coined by music reviewer Dave Marsh in 1971 to define a new and emerging style in music and culture. Anti-establishment in nature, Punk took its influence from the culture clashes of the 1960’s, creating a new style and sound that had a tremendous effect on fashion, art and youth culture in America and around the world. The effects of Punk are still felt on the cultural world today and the lifestyle is now being carried on by a new generation of young people.
I was first introduced to the band Green Day when I listened to their song “Good Riddance” on their album Warning when it was released in 1997. I continued to listen to Green Day’s music throughout my teenage years after they released their next two albums, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. When I was young I enjoyed Green Day’s music because it was fun to listen and sing along with, but as I grew older and actually started interpreting the lyrics of their songs I realized that there was a deeper message to their music. Many of my friends also commented on the motive behind Green Day’s music, and this led us to long-winded discussions about government and politics. We didn’t fully comprehend what we were talking about, but it was obvious that their music had provoked interesting emotions in us. Green Day’s often controversial punk-rock was so influential that it sent a media-influenced generation looking for answers to the meaning behind their politically-charged lyrics in their albums American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown even years later.
Before the song American Idiot came out Billie Armstrong had a few other protests put into his songs but none of them were filled with protests like American Idiot is. After creating this song Green Day started to come out of their box more and began to add more of their political beliefs into their songs because they realized that American Idiot had the power to influence people, and they wanted to keep it going. Throughout the song American Idiot I felt there were a few lyrics that truly influenced the people of society during this time. The first lyric is, “faggot (Liberal) America” (Lynskey, 2004). This lyric is the same as throwing a punch at Bush. What Green Day was trying to express was the fact that George Bush was becoming to Liberal
In the 1950’s and 1960’s, rebellion and music were synonymous. The 1950’s brought widespread attention to a new kind of music coined as “Rock ‘n’ Roll”. Because parents deemed the music as sinful, the youth used it to establish an identity for themselves. In the 1960’s, the rebellion was given a collective charge when young adults voiced displeasure over the country’s entrance into the Vietnam War and the use of nuclear weapons. One group within this movement was coined the “hippies”.
The American rock band Nirvana impacted American culture and society by paving the way for the punk rock subculture into mainstream corporate America. Punk rock music stems from the rock genre but has its own agenda. The crux of punk rock is that it is a movement of the counterculture against the norms of society. Punk rock in itself is made up of a subculture of people who rejected the tameness of rock and roll music during the 1970s. (Masar, 2006, p. 8). The music stresses anti-establishment and anti-authoritarian ideas in its lyrics as well as scorns political idealism in American society. Before Nirvana unintentionally made punk rock a multi-million dollar commercialized genre of music, underground rock paved the way for the punk rock genre by creating core values that punk rockers drew upon.
When the Punk Movement emerged in the mid-1970s in both the United States and United Kingdom, it spanned into such areas as fashion, music, as well as youth mentality and thus became its own type of subculture. However, this movement can also be considered a form of social deviance when viewed through the lens of Robert Merton’s theory of anomie. This deviance stems from the anti-social and anti-conventional nature of the movement’s members in response to lower and middle class socio-economic strain. Therefore, the Punk Movement can be categorized as a combination of two of Merton’s types of adaptation to strain, including retreatism and rebellion, due to the subculture’s rejection of capitalist values, withdrawal from the workforce and apathetic attitude.
The conveying message of DIY (do-it-yourself) set a platform for people to think and make stance for themselves. The rejection of norms was one of their base reasoning. Through vulgar lyrics and shocking outward appearances, socially the movement may have been the one of the first cultures that thought rebellion. Bluntly raising questions against authority through lyrics influenced teenagers the idealism of freeing oneself again the government. Using such a platforms set the stage for a new age of thinking. Punk "deliberately cultivated an image of violence, deviance, and repugnance at the very inception of the subculture” (Leblanc 39). Despite the image that Punk Rock portrayed, its messages on self-expression and independence have inspired many generations to come both musically and
Langston Hughes, born on 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, was an American poet, novelist, and playwright during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. He saw and experienced constant racism and prejudice in his life and later wrote in an attempt to help the oppressed have a voice. Hughes’ poem “Let America Be America Again” was originally published in an issue of Esquire Magazine in 1936, though he first wrote the poem in 1935. The poem was last published in 1938 in a small collection of Hughes poems called A New Song. The poem was written with attention to tone, diction, structure, and poetic devices to give a voice to Americans being denied the American dream.
Seventies punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures. Inheriting the folk tradition of the protest song, rock music associated with political activism as well as changes in social attitudes to race, sex and drug use. This was often seen as an expression of youth revolt against adult consumerism an...
In conclusion, Punk subculture was a movement to challenge society and promote individual freedom. The punk subculture accomplished this by rebelling against establishments, dressing unusual, promoting beliefs that were not accepted and following their heart. Punk changed society for the better and helped to shape humanity to what it is today.
Punk rock, what is it? Is it rebellion? Anarchism? What makes rock truly punk? Being rooted from garage rock and getting away from the excess mainstream rock, comes punk. A rock genre that spoke often of anti-establishment, anarchism, and rebellion to the norm and society. Genre that was started in a garage and becoming a major cultural phenomenon.
One subculture youth group created is called punk. This started in the 1970s in Britain and America (Griffiths 234). More recently youth in New Zealand have adopted a similar subculture group calling it anarcho-punk. These groups were formed to establish a common community that differed from the larger community. Resistance from a larger societal group is part of what anarcho-punks sought to do (Griffiths 234).
I will try the following three ways to avoid causing type 2 diabetes patients’ feelings of shame or guilt. The first is showing understanding with empathy and care. The type 2 diabetes patients, especially those who are newly diagnosed, usually will present with overwhelmed and hopeless. At this time, showing understanding by telling them that they are not alone, they are many people who have diabetes are in the same boat with them. Conveying the idea that by adhering to medications and therapies, type 2 diabetes can be managed and controlled could help those patients. I will also share my personal story with the patients, my uncle was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes several years ago, and he is the only one in our whole family that has type