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Art Punk
Stylistic origins:	Art Rock, Protopunk, Experimental Rock
Cultural origins:	Late 1970s, United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Typical instruments:	Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboard
Mainstream popularity:	Mostly underground although a few art punk bands have had modest chart success
Derivative forms:	none
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Art punk is a term given to artistic, experimental, or avant garde punk bands.

Contents 1 Characteristics 2 History 3 Artists 4 See Also 5 Online resources

"Art punk" is a term given to punk rock music which may infuse avant-garde elements or which focuses on being more original and challenging as an art form. Art punk can range widely, from Patti Smith's fusion of rock and beat poetry to Suicide's pre-industrial electronic punk. Some art punk bands will incorporate elements of cabaret or performance art, while others may incorporate elements of blues, jazz, folk or Beat poetry. While many art punk bands are labeled post-punk or no wave, art punk bands generally sound more energetic and angular than typical post-punk bands. Members of art punk bands frequently come from art schools or were artists or poets.

Art punk can trace its stylistic origins to The Velvet Underground, the Doors and to a lesser extent Rocket from the Tombs. New York is the city most typically associated with art punk.

After punk's rise in and around 1977, many groups struggled with the directions of the new musical style. Some groups were formed with extremely populist ideology; many of these groups believed punk should be simple and often wrote three-chord songs, presumably with the intention that anyone should be able to play this music. Some examples of bands formed under these or similar principles include Ramones, Sham 69 and Sex Pistols. At roughly the same time, many punk groups were evolving to include more complex song structures and varied instruments, such as the synthesizer. Some of these groups include Wire, Talking Heads, and Suicide.

Most of the original art punk bands are often classified as post-punk, despite the fact that bands like Suicide and Television existed before even the Ramones. The influence of these bands extends beyond the boundary of punk music.

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• The Blood Brothers
• Blood On The Popcorn
• Boredoms
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• Caroliner Rainbow
• James Chance and the Contortions
• Cursive (band)
• Deerhoof
• Devo
• The Fall
• Flipper
• Gang of Four
• Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons
• Half-Japanese
• Huggy Bear
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• Liars
• Lightning Bolt
• Longshoremen
• Lydia Lunch
• Magazine
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• Mink Deville
• Mission of Burma
• Mother Anne Lee and the Shakers
• The Mutants
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• No Things
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• Wire
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