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Punk music started mainly as an adjective, as a way of approaching rock, the term in use since the early 1970s. The main figures who developed the early punk rock style came from a variety of backgrounds, but they generally shared the characteristics of being white American baby boomers from rapidly expanding suburban middle-class environments in the North and the West Coast. By and large, they were born during the 1940s or early 1950s, their musical habits were shaped during the 1950s or early 1960s, and they began performing and recording in the 1960s or early 1970s. And the music they made during punk’s mid-1970s heyday strongly reflected their experiences living through the 1950s and 1960s, the scene skewing older than it is usually portrayed. Many of them were on the fringes of the suburbs in one way or another, perhaps from poorer families, not cissexual or heterosexual, or members of ethnic groups newly but still tenuously able to access the privileges of whiteness. They borrowed extensively from black music resources but were also determined to avoid imitation and pursue authenticity. They were part of the 1960s counterculture but were also seriously concerned with its limits and failures, and by the end of the 1960s, these musicians were making music that spoke to their discontent and the varied crises facing Americans into the 1970s.
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