afraidfuntimesstuff:subjectedtovanish:NATIVE AMERICAN INFLUENCE ON PUNK 1868-1978 ‘The living deserv
afraidfuntimesstuff:subjectedtovanish:NATIVE AMERICAN INFLUENCE ON PUNK 1868-1978 ‘The living deserve respect. The dead deserve the truth. ‘ VIVIENNE WESTWOODCULTURAL APPROPRIATION!!!!!!!!!!!!I am not an expert about thia topic so feel free to correct me, but as far as I am aware, the origin of punk had little to do with getting wasted while imitating minorities/native americans and more to do with refusing the social norm of the age. Also it had a lot to do with poverty. Take the classic look of an old school punk. Denim clothes holding together with patches, messy stitches and safety pins, worn until seams gave and then haphazardly repaired. This wasn’t because kids back then though it was cool, at least not at the very begining. Denim and leather were worn because it was durable. If you wear denim, the real deal, bot the stretch shit they sell today, you can slide down the road after a car crash and come out of it with just a bunch of bruises. The shit survives. Same for leather. Those pins and stitches and metal studs? Those are there to hold the thing together after it got damaged. Those clothes used to be messy and awful because they were mended by people themselves, poor folks who couldn’t affort new set of “not for official” street work every time their seams gave up. Those were clothes worn and repaired by poor amateurs at fiber crafts who didn’t realy had experience, tools, nor time to mend things properly. And they wore that with pride. Outcasts of the society back in time when white nuclear family with wives in polka dot dresses and men in grey suits were what everyone though was the proper way to look and act. Punks said fuck it and walked around with the stubborn pride. Poor people. People of minorities. Women with shaved heads back in time when wearing braids after a certain age was a fau-pax because that’s what little girls do. Men with a tomahawk probably chose the style to show their solidarity with opressed native americans and also as a big fuck you to the society back in time. And so the punk was born as we know it - dirty and patched because fuck your pristine ironed dresses, shaven and colourful because fuck your beehives and smooth grease, wearing all sorts of pins, patches and sewed slogans and symbols to show of support and likes to this or that as a huge fuck you to the private hidden inner lifes and perfect outside facades. At their very beginings, punks were outsiders, they were hated for their origin, for their blood, for their financial status and for their courage to be proud for being everything they weren’t supposed to be.Again, if i am mistaken, feel free to correct me, but as far as i understand the punk and rock culture, their aesthetics in general and tomahawk/piercings in particular have nothing to do with “hey, let’s be cool and edgy because sure” and more to do with “so they spat on your granpa because he has a tribal earring? You know what, i’m getting exactly the same earring and if anybody says anything about it or your granpa, i will beat them to a pulp in his stead”. -- source link