Moore, Ryan. “Postmodernism and Punk Subculture: Cultures of Authenticity and
Deconstruction.” The Communication Review 7.3 (2004). Accessed 27 April 2011
In this article Ryan Moore talks about postmodernism in relation to the punk subculture in the 1970s and 1980s just as punk was beginning to emerge and through to when several other cultures began to branch out from punk, such as hardcore and straightedge. Moore also largely explains the responses that the bands, along with their fans, had to postmodernism, which comes under the two prominent categories of cultures of authenticity and deconstruction. He talks about how there is a group of punk bands who use certain aspects of culture in general to shock and cause disruption to society, resulting in deconstruction. The response of cultures of authenticity relates more to the hardcore and straightedge punk subcultures, where bands have attempted to separate themselves from mainstream culture to move underground by using alternative media they have created themselves. To start with, I was unaware that punk bands even had a slightest response to postmodernism, although when Moore describes postmodernism in relation to culture and art in regards to how boundaries are broken down and aspects from the past are recycled and recreated in a different way for a different use, it became clear how this would work in the punk subculture. Music subculture theory has two terms, bricolage and homology, which I believe are used to define this within this particular subculture. However, it would be more bricolage than homology, where aspects from mainstream culture are used in a way unique to punk.
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