Punk, the genre itself has a plethora of subcultures with an abundance of ideologies, fashion, expressionism, visual aesthetics and are considered to be very ''anti-establishment''.
Emerging from the United Kingdom, United States and Australia in the mid-1970's, with early influences from artistic, visual and audible arts, philosophical, political and literary movements. In the late 1970's the subculture began to diversify leading to the proliferation of sub-genres such as pop-punk, hardcore punk, street punk, New Wave, No Wave, Oi! and 2 Tone. This further influenced the underground music scene such as alternative rock, indie and many more. Later attempting a revive in the mid 1990's to revive the punk movement and as a result losing many hardcore elements commonly found in the art.
Musically the acoustics appear loud and aggressive while retaining this concept of anti- establishment. The use of singers, back up singers, electric guitars, distortion, drummers and many elements influenced from other genres and sub genres from metal and hard rock to pop and even to reggae.
Most songs typically being short with simple arrangements and lyrics representing punk ideologies. Many bands choose to associate themselves with a particular sub culture or sub genre to differentiate themselves both in aesthetics and in their music creating a unique selling point for them and a sub culture surrounding themselves, yet not all punk rock bands choose to associate themselves to create a more indie styled self unique image. While many have their own style of punk others may not, the genre itself is very, very diverse and as such its difficult to isolate a single style or ideology common to any or all bands under this genre.
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