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Youth culture in the United Kingdom

  • Punk rockThe Kingsmen released "Louie, Louie" in 1963, a song that later became known as punk rock's defining ur-text. This garage band from Portland, Oregon, played…
  • Rock and rollIn the late 1940s, a new sound began to take shape in the United States. It emerged from a blending of black musical genres like rhythm and blues with…
  • Scene (subculture)The year 2002 marked the first known use of the term scene queen, a label older hardcore musicians used to mock attractive women they believed joined the…