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A Brief History of American Hardcore

While the ignorant mind can easily mistake Hardcore as just a genre of music, the societies associated with it tie entire bonds of culture together into huge groups of youths in their own worlds. This new punk-adopted sound was faster and heavier than the traditional punk rock that it sprung out of, and that’s how it prospered. It created a mindset of a no-bullshit attitude and a break-all-the-rules ideology. It’s unfortunate to those respecting the scene that it had to clash with the mainstream and cause resistance, causing it to fall victim to an early death (Blush 9-14).
A general knowledge of pop music history can inform the public of how bands such as The Stooges and The Velvet Underground were huge influences on punk revolutionaries like The Clash and The Voidoids. This music history knowledge shows how these original punk bands lead to the possibility of a “harder” genre to come out… and it did in the form of Hardcore, with......

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