ABSTRACT
Punk has provided something of a tradition. The correlations, interstices and apparently strong distinctions between these traditions should by now be becoming clear. In punk, the audience-performer barrier is commonly presumed to have been broken, in an absolute sense, despite blatant evidence to the contrary. In brief, a case can be made for post-protest Dylan as an early usher of certain crucial values/attitudes of the punk era. Punk, then, might be configured as a continuation from the hippies and their counterculture rather than a break with the earlier movement, as noted by McKay. Many punks from the underground scene would doubtless object to a major label group such as this being described as punk. The latter makes sense because, for example, a belief that the bomb represents madness is commonly found in punk only the circle-A anarchy sign beats the CND symbol for popularity on the old school' punk rocker's leather jacket.
