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Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music.

They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles with stripped-down instrumentation.

Lyricism in punk typically revolves around anti-establishment and anti-authoritarian themes.

Punk embraces a DIY ethic; many bands self-produce recordings and distribute them through independent labels.

Gothic fashion is a clothing style marked by dark, mysterious, antiquated, homogeneous, and often genderless features.

It is worn by members of the goth subculture.

Typical gothic fashion includes dyed black hair, exotic hairstyles, dark lipstick and dark clothing.

Both male and female goths can wear dark eyeliner, dark nail polish and lipstick (often black) for a dramatic effect.

Male goths use cosmetics at a higher rate than other men.

Styles are often borrowed from the punk fashion (such as spiked wristbands and chokers) and can also draw influence from Victorians and Elizabethan fashion.

Goth fashion is sometimes confused with heavy metal fashion and emo fashion.

Goth is a music-based subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s.

It was developed by fans of gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk music genre.

Post-punk artists who presaged the gothic rock genre and helped develop and shape the subculture include Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, the Cure, and Joy Division.

Alternative fashion or alt fashion is fashion that stands apart from mainstream, commercial fashion.

It includes both styles which do not conform to the mainstream fashion of their time and the styles of specific subcultures (such as emo, goth, hip hop and punk).

Some alternative fashion styles are attention-grabbing and more artistic than practical (goth, ganguro, rivethead), while some develop from anti-fashion sentiments that focus on simplicity and utilitarianism (grunge, rocker, skinhead).

Emo is a rock music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics.

It emerged as a style of hardcore punk and from the Washington, D.C. hardcore scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore.

The bands Rites of Spring and Embrace, among others, pioneered the genre.

In the early-to-mid 1990s, emo was adopted and reinvented by alternative rock, indie rock, punk rock, and pop-punk bands, including Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbreaker, Cap'n Jazz, and Jimmy Eat World.

By the Braid, the Promise Ring, and the Get Up Kids emerged from Midwest emo, and several independent record labels began to specialize in the genre.

Meanwhile, screamo, a more aggressive style of emo using screamed vocals, also emerged, pioneered by the San Diego bands Heroin and Antioch Arrow.

Screamo achieved mainstream success in the 2000s with bands like Hawthorne Heights, Silverstein, Story of the Year, Thursday, the Used, and Underoath.