protopunk — English Dictionary

Noun

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

   Usage

   • Uncountable

   Examples

   Garage bands popularize protopunk rebellion.

   More examples (2)

   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.

   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.