> Charles,
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> Yes. Punk rock ('n roll) is not sui generis.
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> -B.
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> Charles Brown wrote:
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> "Do you trace punk's roooooots to the blues ?"
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Sorry, but I think that this is completely off. I don't think that punk can be put down to the blues at all. Blues music, and much of the rock music which followed it, seems to me to be structurally self-repressive. It never aspired to being wholly "raw". The closest thing was delta blues but even that was somewhat self-repressive - one of those Scorcese documentaries has a delta bluesman saying how they used to use euphemisms for the "bossman" so that he wouldn't notice (e.g. "My woman doing me so much harm" = "my bossman doing me so much harm"). The same structures seem to have been integrated into most blues music - which is why most blues musicians nowadays will simply rattle off a few scales and call it a song. Punk broke through this at some point... and then went into remission...