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Originally Posted by Janszoon
I guess I'd argue that what you are describing is simply rock n roll. All that anti-establishmentism has been the heart and soul of rock n roll since the beginning. The punk bands of the 70s were just trying to bring it back.
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I'd say that makes the label "punk" fairly meaningless. People are always trying to bring back stripped-down rock, I always thought the term for that is "roots rock."
Anti-establishment hasn't always been a theme of rock. I don't think Presley, Holly, early Beatles had that as a theme at all. Presley, and rock & roll, may have been seen as inherently anti-establishment because they encouraged sexuality and expressiveness, but most early rock music wasn't expressly about rejecting authority and the mainstream, IMO.