Often when people think of punk music they still think of the eighties “down with government, beat the hell out of your neighbor and get wasted” stereotypes. Even though punk has been around a lot longer. In fact artists have probably made irreverent and rebellious statements for as long as there have been structures in place against which to rebel. It goes without saying that punk music has earned its reputation for being high impact, loud, energetic and intense. Digging deeper into this realm ran by seemly endless chaos, we will try to better understand the punk musicians and the their violent audience by using written work from Konrad Lorenz, R. D. Laing, and John Dollard.
Punk music can probably be considered as the way in which punks most strongly define themselves. Punk music is basically the “staple food” for almost all punks. Punk music is an outlet for punks to express their rage, anger etc. In the past punk rock made social statements mostly with regard to the authority of the establis
People defying all types of conformation and personifying individuality created punks themselves. However this movement much influenced by music became known as a culture that painted a different picture according to society in general. “In American society the process of becoming mature involves the inhibition and redirection of behavior resulting from several sources of instigation, and the predominant behavior symptoms of adolescence are aggression against the frustrating forces and substitute responses for those goal-responses which suffer interference.” John Dollard states in this book “Frustration and Aggression” could be seen as adolescents doing what merely came naturally. Punks were and still today are associated with anarchy, anti-government and sometimes defiant behavior. But just like any other culture or group, punks have been divided and quite diverse about how they act and what they believe.
A safe assumption is that the majority of Punks are young, white and middle class as oppos
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