is a raw, confrontational music genre rooted in simplicity, speed, and defiance. Emerging in the mid-1970s, it rejected technical excess in favor of direct expression, DIY ethics, and social dissent. Punk emphasizes urgency, attitude, and community, functioning as both a musical style and cultural movement that confronts authority, challenges norms, and values autonomy, participation, and resistance over polish or commercial ambition across generations and scenes worldwide.
