About Punk and Hip-Hop

Not to mention nowadays' fashion, every youngsters seem to follow Korean style, like the way they wear, look and act, it is all because of Korean wave. But, when comes to fashion, punk and hip hop are the fashion that crossover my mind. Which one come first? Punk or hip hop? From what I research, I found that punk fashion comes first and hip hop is the sub domain. Punk evolved in the UK during 1970s. Punk rock is the rock music genre that hit up the wave of psychedelic and folk rock music introduced in the '60s. In the early of '70s, rock and roll had a new beauty image by dressed like a rocker, example of David Bowie and Marc Bolan (Bio, 2016). They start to spread out the vibe of punk fashion and music to all their fans and others. Following by the hot trend of rock and roll, a lot of younger rockers followed the style of them, of course this trend is hot in the early of 70s. Not only that, the music of the '70s inspired fashion as well by designer Vivienne Westwood (Bio, 2016).

Punk fashion is the clothing, cosmetic, hairstyle, jewellery and body modification of punk subculture (Wikipedia, 2015). Besides, the punk movement's influence on photography as well. The way models pose, hairstyle, expression of the eyes and clothing. Let us take a look at the ritual moment punk fashion that hit over the world, even some of the advertisements were get the inspiration from punk style.

Well, I personally think that punk fashion isn't dead because Samsung,sony and hardrock cafe are still inspired by the style of it, they used the style to create their advertisements too.

 
Until in the early of 1980s, hip-hop style has became another trend of fashion and music. It is an extraordinary style of dress originating from Africa America and Puerto Rican kids from the South Bronx whereby punk is in the UK side (Weinstock, 2016). Even though punk and hip-hop are in the different countries but they also shared similarities of both subculture. They have some connection between itself, shared same DIY aesthetic, it is actually inspired from each other. For example, RUN DMC who was sighted as the first hip hop group to merge rock and rap when look back what was happening in 70s and 80s, it was reported important conversation and cultural exchange that was taking place with hardcore b-boys from South Bronx and the restrict rebellious punk kids in Manhattan (Davey, 2013).

So here is a bit of histories about punk and hip hop. 


References

Bio (2016) 'London Punk Cultural-Icons: 1970s', [Online] Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/groups/london-punk-cultural-icons-1970s (Accessed: 10 June 2016)

Davey,D (2013) 'The Connection Between Hip Hop, New Wave and Punk', 6 February, Hip Hop and Politics, [Online] Available at: http://hiphopandpolitics.com/2013/02/06/the-connection-between-hip-hop-new-wave-and-punk/ (Accessed: 12 June 2016)

Weinstock,T (2016) 'the photographer who defined punk and hip hop', 2 February, i-D, [Online] Available at: https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/the-photographer-who-defined-punk-and-hip-hop (Accessed: 12 June 2016)

Wikipedia (2015) 'Punk fashion', [Online] Available at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_fashion (Accessed: 10 June 2016)