May 6, 2011

      For this week, we first looked at Patti Smith and the whole punk movement that she was belonged to in the 70's. Compare with the era before her, which is hippies in the 60s, Patti Smith usually dressed in all black, always perform with no or just a little make up, with her strange hair, probably that is another way to show her masculinity. She was one of the most successful musician in the punk era, and also her performance push the whole punk music moving forward. Her music style was a fusion of rock and poetry, and also been called the "Godmother of Punk".

     Talk about Punk, CBGB is frequently mentioned by people, founded by Hilly Fristal in 173, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues), but it became a forum of American punk bank like Patti Smith, Mink DeVille, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Fleshtones. And in the later years, it become also know for Hardcore punk. Because CBGB's location (Manhattan), it gains huge amount of listeners, I guess thats another reason that Punk could separate so fast with a huge percentage of female fans. For Punk music itself, most of the punk performance don't even need to know how to sing, as we see all of their performance, and also we can see, while if a women is in the band, women usually need to play some kind of instrument to show that they take this seriously, but its still a huge step forward for the women, when the punk rock took off in 1975, women realized that they didn't need to be beautiful, now they can perform on stage and not afraid.