Punk is a sub-culture that was born in London, England. Initially, a group of punk has always confounded by skinhead groups. However, since the 1980s, when rampant in American punk, punk and skinhead groups as if fused, because it has the same spirit. However, Punk can also mean the kind of music or genre that was born in the early 1970's. Punk can also mean the ideology of life that includes social and political aspects.
Youth movement that began by working class children are immediately penetrated American economic and financial problems triggered by the decline of morals by political leaders triggers unemployment and high crime. Punk tried to satirize the ruling in its own way, through the songs with music and lyrics are simple but sometimes rough, beat fast and stomping.
Many misunderstand punk as glue sniffers and vandals because the UK had an outbreak of the use of strong-smelling glue to replace the beer that was bought by them. Many others who damage the image of punk because many of them are roaming the streets and perform a variety of criminal activities.
Punk fashion is more famous than it is imposed and the behavior they exhibited, such as the Mohawk-style haircut indian tribe, or cut feathercut model and colored with bright colors, boots, chains and spikes, leather jackets, tight jeans and shabby clothes, anti-establishment, anti-social, the rioters and criminals from the lower classes, dangerous drunk so many who think that people who looked like it was worthy to be called as a punker.
Punk is also a youth resistance movement based on the belief We Can do it Ourselves. Assessment of punk in seeing a problem can be seen through the lyrics of the song that tells of the political, environmental, economic, ideological, social and even religious matters.
LIFESTYLE & IDEOLOGY
Brilliant psychologist from Russia, Pavel Semenov, concluded that satisfy human hunger for knowledge in two ways. First, do research on the environment and manage the research results in a rational (science). Second, rearrange its immediate environment with the goal of making something new (art).
With the above definition, punk can be categorized as part of the art world. Lifestyle and mindset of the precursor is similar to its predecessor punk avant-garde movement, namely makeup nyleneh, blurring the boundaries between artistic ideals and the realities of life, provoking the audience openly, using performers (performers) low quality and reorganize (or mendisorganisasi) establishment drastic lifestyle. The adherents of the two schools are also beginning to believe one thing, that hebohnya appearance (Appearances) must be accompanied by thoughts (ideas).
Further develop as a punk rock musician disappointment fruit lower classes against the music industry was dominated by established rock musicians, such as The Beatles, Rolling Stone, and Elvis Presley. Musicians do not play punk rock tones of high technical or heart-wrenching love song. In contrast, more punk songs like cry of protest against the cruel world of demonstrators. Lyrics of punk songs tell the frustration, anger, and boredom compromise with street legal, low education, manual labor, unemployment and repression apparatus, the government and the figure of the ruler over the people.
Consequently labeled as punk rock n 'roll left flow, so that often do not get a chance to appear on television shows. Record companies were reluctant to orbit them.
Lifestyle is relatively no one has the same lifestyle with others. Ideology is taken from the word "ideas" and "logos" which means the fruit of pure thought in life. Lifestyle and ideology developed in accordance with the place, time and situation of the punk Kalisari at this time began to develop the project "jor-rod" that take advantage of the media before the media take advantage of us. In other words something punk trying to free the shackles of his day respectively.
PUNK & ANARCHISM
Reaganomic failure and defeat of the United States in the Vietnam War in the 1980's helped heat up the temperature of the punk world at that time. Punk bands of the second wave (1980-1984), such as Crass, Conflict, and Discharge of England, The Ex and BGK from Holland, the MDC and the Dead Kennedys from the United States has transformed the rebellious spirit of punk into pemendam (Rebellious thinkers) rather than just a cult rock n 'roll. The ideology of anarchism ever carried by a wave of punk bands first (1972-1978), among others, the Sex Pistols and The Clash, is seen as the only option for those who have lost confidence in the authority of the state, society, and the music industry.
In Indonesia, the term anarchy, anarchist or anarchism is used by the mass media to declare an act of vandalism, fights or mass violence. Yet according to its founders, namely William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Mikhail Bakunin, anarchism is an ideology that requires the formation of a society without the state, assuming that the state is a legal form of dictatorship must end.
Enforcement of state laws and regulations specify that often times are forced, thus limiting citizens to vote and be responsible for his own choice. Anarchists believe if the state domination over the people eliminated, the right to exploit the natural wealth and human resources will grow by itself. People unable to meet the needs of her own life without state interference.
The punk interpret anarchism is not only limited to purely political sense. In everyday life, anarchism means without the straitjacket of rules, both from public and record companies, because they can create their own rules and live their own record company. Punk ethics of this kind commonly known as DIY (Do It Yourself).
Involvement in the punk ideology of anarchism is finally giving a new color in the ideology of anarchism itself, because punk has all its own khasan in his movements. That carries the punk movement of anarchism as an ideology commonly known as anarcho-punk movement.