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Paula Guerra1; Paula Abreu2; João Campos Matos3; Tânia M1Assistant Professor/Ph.D, IS/FL/UP; 2Profesor Asistente/Ph.D, CES/FE/UC; 3Sociology MA student, DS/FLU

 Ideally, punk assumes itself as a contesting movement

in the scope of the artistic, economic and social dimen-

sions.

 After 1978, many affirmed that punk was dead. Yet,

this is a more symbolical than actual death, as the

movement changed and restructured itself in light of a

relative incorporation by the existing cultural industry

system. We know that the history of pop often walks up-

on itself, reinventing new underground scenes as an an-

swer to hegemony. 

 The creation of popular music is not an individual mat-

ter, not to be understood through a focus on music or

musician, but, instead, as a multifaceted process that can

only be understood in the context of the social environment

in which creates and appropriate soundtrack. 

 Outline a preliminary approach (the first appr

punk in portuguese society) and the experience o

guese punk today, considering him not only a socia

ment, as an experience and a scene. 

 Contextualize this global phenomenon on a

scale, where the protagonists, pathways and spec

tings are necessarily very different from what happ

England (UK) and in USA. 

Assumptions 

 We focus in this paper on the speeches of people, in a descriptio

uation and analysis of the context in which the punk emerged and

oped in Portugal, and at the same time, making a scoping exercis

presentation of the trajectories belonging to the movement, realiz

this individuals construct meanings for their participation. 

Methodolog

Objectiv

 In Portugal, punk emerges almost at the same time as it did in countries such as Eng-

land or the U.S.A. The portuguese revolution of April ’74, worked as a catalyst of will, of change and of

freedom, providing a favourable context for the emergence of the first punk manifestations. 

 The emergence of punk in Portugal is characterised by a mimetism/reappropriation of the

north-american and british realities, a mimetism which isn’t, nonetheless, specific to the foun-

ding moments of punk in Portugal as it can be found through the generations of individuals and

their paths/connections through/to punk. 

 It is important to stress that the attendance to international festivals, the foreign literature

and the possibility of listening to imported records were determinant for the emergence of theportuguese punk scene.

 After the first punk wave of the end of the 1970’s, in the mid-1980’s we could watch the

emergence of a second wave, ten years past the punk’s eclosion in the U.K.: here we can find

bands like Peste & Sida, Mata Ratos, Censurados, Crise Total and Bastardos do Cardeal. They

play shows in Lisbon in places like A Teia, Rock Rendez Vous, António Arroio Artistic School or the

Fine Arts Faculty and they wanted to be heard. 

 The portuguese punk scene is, nowadays and resembling what happens with other punks scenes all

over the world, constituted by several subgroups, united around the sonority of the bands and, in some

cases, of a set of, mainly political, ideals. 

Results 

 In Portugal, we can subdivide t

temporary punk scene in seven grou

can be found among the following

ties: 

1. political punk/anarcho-

punk 

2. hardcore

3. metallic hardcore/metalcore/po

4. crust/d-beat

5. punk rock 

6. skapunk

7. pop-punk/melodic hardcore