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

Also in the 2000s, pop punk outfit Green Day abandoned the pop punk scene and turned to more alternative and progressive rock influences and produced two Grammy-winning concept albums, namely, 2004's American Idiot and 2009's 21st Century Breakdown.

In 2010, American Idiot became the first punk rock opera to make it to Broadway where it has garnered two Tony Awards.

Dead Kennedys are an American hardcore punk band formed in San Francisco, California in 1978.

The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s.

They gained a large underground fanbase in the international punk rock community, and were one of the first American hardcore bands to make a significant impact in the United Kingdom.

is an American punk rock / new wave band formed in 1972 consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio.

Category: American punk rock groups

Independent from the British scene, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw death rock branch off from American punk in California.

Other groups in the British grindcore scene, such as Heresy and Unseen Terror, have emphasized the influence of American hardcore punk, including Septic Death, as well as Swedish D-beat.

In addition, grindcore was one influence on the powerviolence movement within American hardcore punk, and has affected some strains of metalcore.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

Jeffry Ross Hyman ( May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001 ), best known by his stage name Joey Ramone, was an American musician, vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones.

Category: American punk rock singers

Category: American punk rock drummers

Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band, formed in Washington, D. C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983.

Category: American punk rock groups

Category: American hardcore punk groups

* 1980 – Laura Jane Grace ( born Tom Gabel ), American punk rock musician ( Against Me!

* Orange ( band ), an American punk rock band

The classic punk rock look among male American musicians harkens back to the T-shirt, motorcycle jacket, and jeans ensemble favored by American greasers of the 1950s associated with the rockabilly scene and by British rockers of the 1960s.

" Though it had little impact on the American charts, The Who's mod anthem presaged a more cerebral mix of musical ferocity and rebellious posture that characterized much early British punk rock: John Reed describes The Clash's emergence as a " tight ball of energy with both an image and rhetoric reminiscent of a young Pete Townshend — speed obsession, pop-art clothing, art school ambition ".

Hardcore would constitute the American punk rock standard throughout the decade.

Following the appropriation of the hymn in secular music, " Amazing Grace " became such an icon in American culture that it has been used for a variety of secular purposes and marketing campaigns, placing it in danger of becoming a cliché.

The Empire State Building is generally thought of as an American cultural icon.

Avedon is credited with the last portrait of the entertainer to be taken before his departure to Europe and therefore the last photograph of him as a singularly " American icon ".

The revamped and provocative Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders of the 1970s — and the many imitators that followed — firmly established the cheerleader as an American icon of wholesome sex appeal.

His battles for political reform and fiscal conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives of the era.

Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957 ) was an American actor and is widely regarded as a cultural icon.

* John Wayne, actor, enduring American icon

It has become an icon of Thirties American industrial design.

The other significant female icon in American culture was a representation of Liberty, derived from Libertas, the goddess of freedom widely worshipped in ancient Rome, especially among emancipated slaves.

Walter Elias " Walt " Disney ( December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966 ) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century.

* Mr. Butch, American homeless person and icon ( d. 2007 )

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Harriet Tubman, widely known and well-respected while she was alive, became an American icon in the years after she died.

Weir chose French screen icon Gérard Depardieu in the lead — Depardieu's first English-language role — and paired him with American actress Andie MacDowell.

" Jim Cullen observed in Popular Culture in American History ( 2001 ) that although it was Michael Jackson's Thriller that originally synchronized music video with album sales, Janet Jackson was also among the first generation of artists that saw the visualization of their music elevate them to the status of a pop culture icon.

Considered an American icon, it attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and millions of radio and Internet listeners.

Hershey is one of the oldest chocolate companies in the United States, and an American icon for its chocolate bar.

Today, the title character of Gilligan is widely recognized as an American cultural icon.

He was orphaned at age 13, but was apparently engaged in lawful activities until 1877, when he became an icon of the " wildness " of the American Old West as he robbed banks, stagecoaches and railroad trains before being fatally wounded by Texas Rangers the following year.

The character has become an enduring icon of American culture.

The Public Broadcasting Service developed his own nationally-aired show in 1968 and, over the course of three decades on television, he became an indelible American icon of children's entertainment and education, as well as a symbol of compassion, patience, and morality.

William Harrison " Jack " Dempsey (" The Manassa Mauler ") ( June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983 ) was an American professional boxer and cultural icon of the 1920s.

Buffalo Bill ’ s Wild West was enormously successful in Europe making Buffalo Bill an international celebrity and an American icon.

While the extent of his participation is unclear, Attucks became an icon of the anti-slavery movement and was held up as an example of the first black hero of the American Revolution.

Tiffany Renee Darwish ( born October 2, 1971 ), known popularly as Tiffany, is an American singer and former teen icon.