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It is nowhere more clear than in punk rock that rock music is supported by a multi-dimensional matrix of cultural activities, from which a musically closed image as the form of the social content included within it cannot be separated. Punk rock does not owe its structure to a new social realism but to the cultural activities of its fans - as background and framework for their gatherings every evening, as live dance music, as compensation for boredom, as an element of confrontation in the cultural context they have developed, as an opportunity to do something once music was no longer linked to particular technical or musical constraints. Simon Frith condensed this into the following formula: 'This music is about making the best of a bad situation; it is not about changing it. "I With this in mind it is pure romanticism to explain punk rock as the musical means of expression for the social protest of the young unemployed

 
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