Anarchy in the UK, Solidarity in the ROK: Punk Rock Comes to Korea
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Topic: Punk Rock
Sort Desciption: most famous punk rock song, "Anarchy in the UK" by The Sex. Pistols. ... In this essay I examine the emergence of punk rock in Korea, ...
Content Inside: Anarchy in the UK, Solidarity in the ROK: Punk Rock Comes to Korea by Stephen J. Epstein Victoria University of Wellington This article appears in Acta Koreana 3 (2000) pp.1-34 I am an antichrist And I am an anarchist Dont know what I want but I know how to get it I wanna destroy passers-by. -- "Anarchy in the UK," The Sex Pistols Dad said to me, youve got to do something with your life, But if I think about it, I cant do anything In this tiny room of mine Mom, Mom said to me, youve got to marry into a good family, I like the place where my friends are better The rich boy I met yesterday doesnt suit me I want, I want to leave this place, Ive got to get away I want to throw away this me that isnt me Now I want to leave, now Ive got to get away -- "Kalmaegi" (Seagull), Crying Nut Introduction I cull the first passage above from what is arguably the worlds most famous punk rock song, "Anarchy in the UK" by The Sex Pistols. In 1977 their album "Never Mind the Bollocks, Heres the Sex Pistols" heralded the arrival of punk, a confrontational musical and social movement whose iconoclastic followers rebelled against the institutions of British society. That album also featured the venomous "God Save the Queen," which topped Englands singles charts despite being banned by the BBC. A bitter attack on royalty and the government ("God save the queen/ her fascist regime"), the song builds to an unsettlingly cathartic climax in which the snarled lyric "no future for you, no future for me" captured for many the economic despair of a generation. Espousing anarchy and nihilism in time to an aggressive, stripped-down rock beat, punk and its largely working-class practitioners not only changed the face of a popular music that had become increasingly turgid throughout the 1970s but generated a media-fed moral panic in Great Britain. Punks musical form, its violent philosophy, and, not least, its stylistic a ...
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