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Shock rock

Shock rock is the combination of rock music or heavy metal music with highly theatrical live performances emphasizing shock value. Performances may include violent or provocative behavior from the artists, the use of attention-grabbing imagery such as costumes, masks, or face paint, or special effects such as pyrotechnics or fake blood. Shock rock also often includes elements of horror.

For the rock band, see Shlock Rock.

Shock rock

1950s–1970s, United Kingdom and United States

Horror punk

List of shock rock musicians

Haenfler, Ross (2006). Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-Living Youth, and Social Change (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press).  0-8135-3852-1

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Leblanc, Lauraine (1999). Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press).  0-8135-2651-5

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(1995). Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs (New York: Picador). ISBN 0-312-11883-X

Lydon, John

and Gillian McCain (1997). Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (New York: Penguin Books). ISBN 0-14-026690-9

McNeil, Legs

Raha, Maria (2005). Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground (Emeryville, Calif.: Seal).  1-58005-116-2

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Reynolds, Simon (2005). Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978–1984 (London and New York: Faber and Faber).  0-571-21569-6

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(2006). Punk Rock: An Oral History (London: Elbury Press). ISBN 0-09-190511-7

Robb, John

Sabin, Roger (1999). Punk Rock, So What? The Cultural Legacy of Punk (London: Routledge).  0-415-17030-3

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(1991). England's Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock (London: Faber and Faber). ISBN 0-312-28822-0

Savage, Jon

Simpson, Paul (2003). The Rough Guide to Cult Pop: The Songs, the Artists, the Genres, the Dubious Fashions (London: Rough Guides).  1-84353-229-8

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Taylor, Steven (2003). False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press).  0-8195-6668-3

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