punk rock

genre of rock music

Class type of: punk music Q3071

Facts

14 properties

Instance of: music genre
Inception: 1975^[7]
Followed by: post-punk^[3]
Subclass of: punk music
Part of: punk subculture^[4]
Country of origin: United Kingdom, United States^[5]^[6]
Different from: funk rock^[13]
Has characteristic: rock genre^[11]
Has list: list of punk rock albums, list of 1970s punk rock musicians^[15]^[16]
History of topic: origins of punk rock^[14]
Location of formation: New York City, London^[8]^[9]
Native label: Punk rock^[12]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[17]
Topic has template: Template:Punk^[10]

🏷️ Also known as

en punk en punk rock music en punk rock ar بانك da punk-rock de Punk-Rock de Punkrock el πανκ es musica punk es música punk es música punk rock es punk rock es rock punk es rockpunk fa پانک راک fi punk he Pאנק he punk rock he פאנק רוק id punk

🔖 Identifiers · 63

Library of Congress authority ID: sh85109128
GND ID: 4176370-1
Image (Wikimedia Commons): SexPistolsNorway1977.jpg ↗
All the Tropes article ID: Punk_Rock
AllMusic genre/style ID: ma0000002806, ma0000011872
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID: scot/7930
BNCF Thesaurus ID: 16854
BabelNet ID: 00065237n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12486954n
Bing entity ID: b048c2ab-6fe9-7c00-2e5f-411fc7343c14
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID: punkrock
Cultureel Woordenboek ID: populaire-muziek/punk

Show all 63 identifiers +51

DPLA subject term: Punk rock music
Dewey Decimal Classification: 781.66
Discogs style ID: punk
Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID: 173214
Enciclopedia dei ragazzi ID: musica-punk
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: art/punk
Encyclopædia Universalis ID: punk
Equivalent class: lemac.sgcb.mcu.es
FAST ID: 1084153
Fandom article ID: punk:Punk_rock, de.punk:Punk
Fandom wiki ID: punk, de.punk
Freebase ID: /m/05r6t
GSSO ID: 009344
GTAA ID: 262962
GitLab topic ID: punkrock
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID: punk
Handbook of Texas ID: xbp02
Harper's tag: punk-rock-music
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID: 51103
IMDb keyword: punk-rock
Interlingual Index ID: i73814
JSTOR topic ID (archived): punk-rock
KBpedia ID: PunkMusic
Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID: 3131
Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID: sj2021060061
Library of Congress Classification: ML3534
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID: gf2014027025
Munzinger Pop ID: 02000000607
Museum-digital tag ID: 88627
MusicBrainz genre ID: bd7e1d40-43b1-4ba5-97b3-05b891466962
Namuwiki ID: 펑크 록
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007550911405171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0): XX553230
Proleksis enciklopedija ID: 5612
Quora topic ID: Punk-Rock
Rate Your Music genre ID: punk-rock
Reddit topic ID: punk_rock
Subreddit: punkrock, Punk_Rock
TV Tropes ID: Main/PunkRock
The Top Tens ID: 9391
Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Punk rock
Topic's main category: Category:Punk rock
Treccani's Lessico del XXI Secolo ID: punk-rock
Twitch tag ID: 8d131cac-82f2-4bc8-8a78-9c7aa045f4e2
Vikidia article ID: fr:Punk_rock
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID: 07079780-n
X (Twitter) topic ID: 884780849584930818
YSA ID: Y505068
YSO ID: 29762
Yale LUX ID: concept/c83ebad2-8b98-43e0-bea1-affe658b607b
Yandex Music genre ID: punk

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🔗 Connections

← Genre 1836

U2, Green Day, Courtney Love, Viktor Tsoi, Sex Pistols, Pussy Riot, Maroon 5, Sid Vicious +1828 more

Subtypes 27

hardcore punk, pop-punk, oi!, riot grrrl, ska punk, rapcore, horror punk, anarcho-punk +19 more

← Category combines topics 4

Category:Punk rock genres, Category:American punk rock groups, Category:Punk rock albums, Category:Hungarian punk rock groups

← Main subject 4

Maximum Rocknroll, Super 8 Stories, WikiProject Punk music, New Noise Magazine

Country of origin 2

United States, United Kingdom

Influenced 2

thrash metal, folk punk

Location of formation 2

London, New York City

← Different from 2

funk rock, electroclash

Belongs to 1

punk subculture

Different from 1

funk rock

Followed by 1

post-punk

Followed by (predecessor) 1

post-punk

Instance of 1

music genre

Named after 1

Celtic punk

On focus list of Wikimedia project 1

Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

Part of 1

punk subculture

Topic has template 1

Template:Punk

Topic's main Wikimedia portal 1

Portal:Punk rock

Topic's main category 1

Category:Punk rock

← Based on 1

neofolk

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Punk rock

← DataTrek identifier 1

Family

← Field of work 1

New Noise Magazine

← Resistance in Belgium ID 1

Vlissegem

← SNARC ID 1

Pembroke

← TDKIV Wikibase ID 1

open-source software

← Template has topic 1

Template:Punk

← Wikimedia portal's main topic 1

Portal:Punk rock

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Punk rock is a music genre^[1].

Body

Influence

Things named for punk rock include Celtic punk^[18], a music genre^[19], founded in 1984^[20].

Why It Matters

punk rock has been cited as an influence by thrash metal^[21], a music genre^[22], founded in 1980^[23] and folk punk^[24], a music genre^[25], founded in 1985^[26].

Entities named for it include Celtic punk^[18], a music genre^[19], founded in 1984^[20].

FAQs

Who did punk rock influence?

punk rock has been cited as an influence by thrash metal^[21] and folk punk^[24].

References

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

[22] ↑ thrash metal — P31: music genre. Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
[23] ↑ thrash metal — P571: 1980. Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
[25] ↑ folk punk — P31: music genre. Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
[26] ↑ folk punk — P571: 1985. Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
[19] ↑ Celtic punk — P31: music genre. Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
[20] ↑ Celtic punk — P571: 1984. Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ punk rock is an instance of music genre (Q188451) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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21d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗

GSSO ID → 009344

Claims rich → —

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ GSSO ID: 009344, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/157146085|punk rock music (#157146085)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6077|Gender, Sex, and "
4w ago · Iketsi · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'bar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bn', 'br', 'bs', 'ca'

Claims rich → —

"/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||en, fr, en-gb, cs, et, hr, it, pl, ro, sk, sl, tr, vi, sh, hu, fi, ast, gl, bs, ku-latn, ku, mul, es, he, sms, se, smn */ Remove all redundant labels/aliases "
19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Harper's tag → punk-rock-music

"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: punk-rock-music, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289949874|punk rock music (#289949874)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper'"
26w ago · DanGFSouza · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Subreddit → punkrock, Punk_Rock

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Subreddit: Punk_Rock, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/144665898|Punk_Rock (#144665898)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5569|Subreddit Directory"
26w ago · Sldst-bot · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Instance of → music genre

Has characteristic → rock genre

"/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30051|batch #30051]]: formatting following the current schema"
26w ago · StarTrekker · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Inception → +1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Different from → funk rock

Topic's main Wikimedia portal → Portal:Punk rock

Twitch tag ID → 8d131cac-82f2-4bc8-8a78-9c7aa045f4e2

+ 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: rock genre"

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