They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles with stripped-down instrumentation. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music.
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
Mid-1970s, United States, United Kingdom, and Australia
For the 1960s genre also known as 'punk rock', see Garage rock.
