The Warped Tour

Everyone knows Woodstock, and Lolapalooza, but in 1995, the BMX/skateboarding shoe company, Vans, started the Vans Warped Tour.


This tour was originally used to showcase punk bands, but bands from the Emo and Rock genres have been participating in recent years. This tour features up to 100 bands in a day full of performances starting at 11 am and playing until 9 pm. Each band performs for 30 minutes on one of 10 stages, with the major bands playing on one of the 2 main stages. Each band's play time is listed on a giant board at the tour's location. This is an all day event, with booths containing band merchandise or promoting websites and record labels, mosh pits, mud fights, and lots of music. Click here for more information on Warped Tour



Your final project is to perform a time line for punk rock! You will split into groups of 3-4 people and you will do the following:

• Show a clear time line from proto punk->modern punk music.
  

• Use musical examples!

• Costumes: Go Crazy! You can have each person where a different costume for each genre in the time line, or do quick changes by throwing a t-shirt on over a costume to show a change. Let your creativity flow!

• Props and Sets: Again, be creative, this is your chance to be as hard core as you'd like for this project. You can make guitars, wristbands, Mohawks! Use your creativity!
  

• Be Creative! Do you want to do a musical time line or something purely historical? Do you want to perform a medley of music showing the changes?
  

• What is the essence of punk rock? Did this essence stay true through it's evolution? Explain why you do or do not think so.

• You will present this in front of the class, so HAVE FUN!
  

Emo

Jimmy Eat World



The 1990's brought another kind of punk music into the light; Emo. This version of punk rock was an emotionally driven melodic version of punk music from the 1980's and 90's. During this time, bands like The Get Up Kids and Jimmy Eat World were gaining popularity.



Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional

This type of music didn't reach mainstream popularity until the early 2000's when songs like Dashboard Confessional's "Screaming Infidelities" and "The Sweetness" by Jimmy Eat World became hits. Subgenres of Emo started popping up as well. Thursday became known for writing "screamo," while Taking back Sunday was a harder more punk like genre known as "emo-core."




Listen to Dashboard Confessional's Screaming Infidelities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ecpYbrH0kY

After you've heard this song answer the following questions for an oral presentation:
Is this punk? Please be very clear in why you do, or do not feel that this is punk music. I would like you to prepare at least a paragraph, and use examples! You've heard quite a few examples of traditional punk as well as pop-punk during this webquest. Is it similar to what you've heard, and if so, what similarities does this genre share with punk? Should Emo really hold a position in this genre, or is it something else altogether?

For more information on emo, ask your parents before you click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo

Here are some great songs you might like:

"Action and Action," The Get Up Kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnQWZSN3JL4

"No Other One," Weezer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65p6grAGYIM

"The Sweetness," Jimmy Eat World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9iQW_-HE84

Punk Goes Pop!

It's 1994 and there's a new band on the radio. Green Day's underground record, "Kerplunk" was a huge success and they left their old label Lookout! (on friendly terms) and went over to Reprise records. In 1994 the album "Dookie" is released containing hit songs like "Basket Case" and "When I Come Around." This change in labels resulted in many punk fans regarding Green Day as "sellouts." However, this also gave them a larger fan base! This wasn't the end of punk rock bands being heard in the popular music scene...

Take a listen to these two examples of Green Day's Music:

Kerplunk (1993):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYU2ZPTJnh4

Dookie (1994):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rPkiaJrRNo&feature=fvst

What do you think? Did they sell out? Did they stop being punk rock because they signed to a major label? Did their music even change? Why do you think the underground punk rock community took their switch to a major label so hard?

Now for a contrast!

American Idiot (2004):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCkH4TL_8fk&feature=related

How is THIS song different from the first two? How did Green Day change as the years went by? Do you think they've sold out by this point? If their music still punk rock at this point? Please give reasons!!


Take a look around Wikipedia and search for pop punk. See what comes up and answer the following questions:

1.) Name a few examples of Ska Punk.

2.) What can you tell me about Napster, and how did it affect the music industry and the ability of fans to get music they wanted? What punk rock album was released on Napster?

3.) Did bands like Good Charlotte and Sum 41 copy Green Day's style? Why do you, or don't you think so?

4.) Can you name some current punk rock bands in the pop world?

Here are some examples of "pop-punk"

"Fat Lip," Sum 41
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMX2lPum_pg

"Girls & Boys," Good Charlotte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FTS2tdmyYM

"My Friends Over You," New Found Glory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUoELWdJx4c

The Ramones or The Sex Pistols?

With the 1970's came the arrival of two bands:

The Ramones and The Sex Pistols.

Some say that one band was inspired by the other and vise-versa. There was also an extreme preference of one band to the other. The Ramones had stronger melodic inclinations than the Sex Pistols, but the Sex Pistols had a much more raw sound, and their lyrics were political favoring anarchy and other movements.

Here are a couple of links relating to each band:

Ramones- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7FdJajqxmU

Sex Pistols- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Pistols
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBojbjoMttI&feature=fvst

Look through the wikipedia pages, but also try and do some research on your own about what social issues were occuring in the U.K. as well as the USA and answer the following questions:

1.) What social and political issues were occurring in England and the U.K. that were not happening in The United States?

2.) What issues did both bands have to deal with in their countries?

3.) Did they address these issues in their music?

4.) After having listened to each band, which do you prefer? Do you have a preference? If so, why do you like one over the other? Give musical reasons why you do or do not like either band.

BONUS: What club were The Ramones famous for having one of their first shows?

(Pictures of The Ramones and The Sex Pistols are from www.wikipedia.com)

A Long Time Ago, in a Rock Club Far, Far Away...

The year is 1963, and The Kingsmen's "Louie, Louie" has been released much to the dismay of parents and some teachers. "Louie, Louie" was only the beginning of what would be known as "punk rock." Soon, other garage bands would start playing edgier more rebellious music. With the British Invasion came an edgier sound. The Kinks "You Really Got Me" was a song that was so simplistic and raw that other rock musicians took notice.





Fast forward only 6 years, and punk rock is becoming more established with bands like The Stooges. This music was full of the "sex drugs and rock and roll" themes that bands from the 1960's embraced and that other bands would re-adopt in the future, another thing that made parents nervous. As the years went by, punk rock evolved into the different styles of punk music that exist today.



This webquest will lead you down a road of clubs, people of ill repute, and awesome music! Using the internet, we will be able to see how punk rock turned from a simplistic and raw form of the expression of ideas like government reform, anarchy and sexual themes to the varied amount of musical styles (emo, pop-punk, screamo, etc) that exist today at Warped Tour.


You've been invited to check out a new band, The Ramones at CBGBs. Click on the following link, and answer this question: What does CBGB OMFUG mean?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBGBs

While you behold the history of this legendary club, feel free to listen to the sweet sounds of proto-punk:

"Louie Louie," The Kingsmen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vae_AkLb4Q

"You Really Got Me," The Kinks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2GmzyeeXnQ

"All Day and All Night," The Kinks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq_PrFpqo

"I Wanna Be Your Dog," The Stooges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJIqnXTqg8I


(Pictures are from www.wikipedia.com, The Kinks and the Cover of "The Stooges" by The Stooges)