punk rock (1971), rock and roll/rock 'n' roll 1954 ; …fanzine (1949)

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Chinese musician Cui Jian 崔健 brought rock ’n’ roll to China, galvanized a progressive shift in the culture, and is one of the world’s most popular musicians.

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rock and roll 

Pronunciation:

(also rock 'n' roll)

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

A type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s, characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Rock and roll was an amalgam of black rhythm and blues and whitecountry music, usually based around a twelve-bar structure and an instrumentation ofguitar, double bass, and drums.

punk 1976…fanzine 1949

今天每日一字，就選源自美國1949年的新字fanzine，最早在"科幻小說"流傳。
好笑的是，1977-78年我在英國，可是可能不知道1976的新字punk！

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/fanzinefanzine
Pronunciation: /ˈfanziːn/
NOUNA magazine, usually produced by amateurs, for fans of a particular performer, group, or form of entertainment:
[WITH MODIFIER]: a football fanzine
Origin
1940s (originally US): blend of fan2 and magazine.

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Punk 1976-78 opens in one week! Music, rare artefacts and fanzines tell the story of punk from the birth of the Sex Pistols at Malcolm McLaren to its impact on a generation of young people and beyond.http://bit.ly/1T4S3YL ‪#‎punk40‬

Punk 1976 78

Starting with the impact of the Sex Pistols in 1976, the exhibition explores punk’s early days in the capital and reveals how its remarkable influence spread across music, fashion, print and graphic styles nationwide. Showcasing a…

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• Long before the days of Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols, all sorts of people found themselves labelled as punks. In the past the word has been used as a term for a prostitute, a male homosexual, and in show business for a youth or young animal. In American English it has been used since the early 20th century as a disparaging word for a person and in particular a young hooligan or petty criminal. In the film Dirty Harry (1971) Clint Eastwood says to a crook: ‘I know what you're thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself…You've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?’ Since the 1970s the word has been applied to admirers or players of punk rock, a loud, fast-moving, aggressive form of rock music: the first US mention of punk rock comes in 1971, five years before the first British punk record, ‘New Rose’ by the Damned. The original punk was not a person at all, but, in 17th-century North America, a term for soft crumbly wood that has been attacked by fungus. This was used as tinder as it caught fire easily. Its ultimate origin is not known, although it probably related to spunk (mid 16th century), which originally meant a spark, a fire or tinder, before developing the senses ‘courage and determination’ (late 18th century), and ‘semen’ (late 19th century) which is itself of uncertain origin.

punk was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.

• punk (CULTURE)
• punk (CRIMINAL)
• punk rock

n.

1. Slang.
   1. A young person, especially a member of a rebellious counterculture group.
   2. An inexperienced young man.
2. Music.
   1. Punk rock.
   2. A punk rocker.
3. 1. Slang. A young man who is the sexual partner of an older man.
   2. Archaic. A prostitute.

[Origin unknown.]

punker punk'er n.

punk² (pŭngk) 

n.

1. Dry decayed wood, used as tinder.
2. Any of various substances that smolder when ignited, used to light fireworks.
3. Chinese incense. 香

adj. Slang.

1. Of poor quality; worthless.
2. Weak in spirits or health.

[Probably of eastern Algonquian origin.]

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Guardian culture

Sweat, soap spikes and snarls are key ingredients of punk – and all are present and correct in Derek Ridgers’s photography of the London scene in the late 70s

Paul Smith celebrates 40 years of punk

Iconic punk London images by photographer Derek Ridgers

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