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Chicano punk is a branch of Chicano rock.

Examples of the genre include music by the bands The Zeros, Los Illegals, The Brat, The Plugz, Manic Hispanic, Los Crudos, The Casualties, and the Cruzados ; these bands emerged from the California punk scene.

Some music historians argue that Chicanos of Los Angeles in the late 1970s might have independently co-founded punk rock along with the already-acknowledged founders from British-European sources when introduced to the US in major cities.

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and the Mysterians, which was composed primarily of Mexican American musicians, was the first band to be described as punk rock.

The term was reportedly coined in 1971 by rock critic Dave Marsh in a review of their show for Creem magazine.