Protopunk

Quick meaning: Protopunk is a noun meaning Collectively, the music (of various genres and backgrounds) that influenced the later punk movement in the 1970s.

Meaning

Collectively, the music (of various genres and backgrounds) that influenced the later punk movement in the 1970s.

Example Sentences

Garage bands popularize protopunk rebellion.

Susan wasn't in the mood to talk about glass, or bees, or even protopunk feminist singer-songwriter poets of the 1970s, and she was almost always in the mood to talk about them.

Sky Saxon, the mop-haired bass player and front man for the psychedelic protopunk band the Seeds, whose 1965 song “Pushin’ Too Hard” put a Los Angeles garage-band spin on the bad-boy rocker image personified by the Rolling Stones, died Thursday in Austin, Tex.

Word Forms

• proto-punk

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include proto-prog, protometal, avant-pop, prog, avant-funk, avantpop.

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