{"id":5445,"date":"2018-05-04T09:50:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T13:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5445"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:41:26","slug":"punk-rock-is-dead-long-live-punk-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2018\/05\/04\/punk-rock-is-dead-long-live-punk-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Punk Rock is Dead, Long Live Punk Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the last Punk show in Pierre South Dakota. It was a sort of fairwell and reunion rolled into one. It was a community spanning almoot 20 years coming together to celebrate one last time<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Seventy-five teens and young adults are crammed into an old smoky VFW hall.\u00a0 <\/span>All the kids are slight variations of the ones next to them.\u00a0 <\/span>They might have a different hairstyle or studs on their jackets.\u00a0 <\/span>The smell of sweat soaks through the room.\u00a0 <\/span>Outside at the ticket counter there are pamphlets for \u201cModern Feminism,\u201d \u201cGoing off the Grid\u201d and \u201cHow to Take Advantage of Squatting Laws.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>There is loud music being blown out through small speakers.\u00a0 <\/span>There is no stage, just microphones between the crowd and the band. This is a \u201cpunk rock show.\u201d This is a community.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u201cPunk\u201d was a response to the glam and grand scale of the rock music of the \u201880s and \u201890s.\u00a0 <\/span>It was loud, aggressive and simple.\u00a0 <\/span>Underneath that aggression was a call for change in society and what was considered normal.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Taman Eggers, a show booker for punk rock shows across the Midwestern United States currently living in Minneapolis, said, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to define because there are so many different factions of it.\u00a0 <\/span>They all contain their own rules and ideals.\u00a0 <\/span>They all come from the same root, but have splintered off so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>The ability to categorize something as important becomes difficult when there are so many different communities that claim to represent it.\u00a0 <\/span>The word \u201ccommunity\u201d is the word that really stands out, however.\u00a0 <\/span>Eggers said, \u201cCommunity is what drives them together.\u00a0 <\/span>They all strive for a community of like-minded people to work toward making a change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>The longevity of a community that met in person to celebrate its ideals and music was not sustainable at the core.\u00a0 <\/span>The rise of the internet has really made it a different place.\u00a0 <\/span>Eggers said, \u201cPeople don\u2019t need to go to shows to discover music anymore or to meet like-minded people.\u00a0 <\/span>They are able to look online.\u00a0 <\/span>On one hand that is awesome: for people in the middle of nowhere, they have a common ground.\u00a0 <\/span>For people in the city, though, it can seem like it is tearing it apart from the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>There is a question of if it is still important, and according to Eggers it is. \u201cI think that people\u2019s ability to market themselves to a wider audience through the internet is great.\u00a0 <\/span>The music style has changed, but the ideals haven\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>The mosh-pits and screaming may have gone away, but music is still at the core of what it means to be punk. \u201cThe music has evolved into Hip-Hop.\u00a0 <\/span>A lot of what artists in that community are doing is important because, just like the the \u201880s and \u201890s, it is the disenfranchised that are making the music.\u00a0 <\/span>They see change that they want enacted and have found a medium to preach that message,\u201d Eggers said in response to the rise of Hip-Hop to take a more directly political approach.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Whether it be wailing guitars or turntables, the punk rock mentality of doing it yourself and making yourself relevant has always been important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Seventy-five teens and young adults are crammed into an old smoky VFW hall.\u00a0 All the kids are slight variations of the ones next to them.\u00a0 They might have a different hairstyle or studs on their jackets.\u00a0 The smell of sweat soaks through the room.\u00a0 Outside at the ticket counter there are pamphlets for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8627,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions\/8627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}