protopunk

alternative proto-punk

1. uncountableCollectively, the music (of various genres and backgrounds) that influenced the later punk movement in the 1970s.

   Garage bands popularize protopunk rebellion.

   2006, Katherine Charlton, Rock music styles: a history, page 69

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   Susan wasn't in the mood to talk about glass, or bees, or even protopunk feminist singer-songwriter poets of the 1970s, and she was almost always in the mood to talk about them.

   2009, Chelsea Cain, Sweetheart, page 216

   Sky Saxon, the mop-haired bass player and front man for the psychedelic protopunk band the Seeds, whose 1965 song “Pushin’ Too Hard” put a Los Angeles garage-band spin on the bad-boy rocker image personified by the Rolling Stones, died Thursday in Austin, Tex.

   2009 June 27, Bruce Weber, “Sky Saxon, Lead Singer for the Seeds, Dies at 71”, in New York Times