The Sound of Subterranean Scuzz-Holes: New York Queer Punk in the 1970s

Ervin, Jarek Paul

doi:10.1080/03007766.2018.1483117

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“…The mid‐1970s brought a change as punk began to gain wider visibility. The raw, frenzied, buzzing guitar licks of the Ramones eponymous 1975 debut album (whose longest song clocked in at a terse 2:30) along with the establishment of Punk magazine by John Holmstrom in 1976 helped punk to emerge as a distinct musical style and aesthetic (Ervin 486–7). Having migrated to England thanks to the efforts of former New York Dolls manager Malcolm McLaren, punk then exploded back on the wider North American cultural landscape thanks to the Sex Pistols.…”

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Transgressive women in punk: Politics, sexuality, and creative aggression in the 1970s

Valone

2023

The J of Popular Culture

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Prior analyses have examined various elements of punk rock as an aggressive anti‐establishment cultural and social movement that arose in post‐WWII America and flourished in the 1970s. The unique gender dynamic of punk, however, has been less of a focus of historical investigation. This essay examines the lives and music of three women involved in the early years of the emergence of punk, an era overwhelmingly dominated by men. By focusing on the creative expression and Penelope Houston of Avengers, Debbie Harry of Blondie, and Wendy O. Williams of Plasmatics, this paper seeks to analyze how certain women in the punk movement explicitly sought to challenge the conventional narratives of women's social, political, and sexual roles in the late 1970s and in so doing helped to carve out new paths for women's expression and ways of being in American society.

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