Playing acoustic means you’re able to make your own DIY instruments such as dumpster-dived percussions, washboard, washtub bass, vibraphone, etc. Surely, there are many similarities of the uncompromising lifestyle of traing-hopping crusties in ripped up Leftöver Crack shirts, dreadlocks and self-made patches with the hobos of the 30’s and the original hipster and beatnik culture throughout the 50’s and 60’s. The rebellion in music didn’t come with punk and playing acoustic music doesn’t require renting a van for touring or paying for expensive musical instruments. Modern day acoustic punk has been incorporating the rich tradition of the American bluegrass and folk music, namely the famous left-wing political songwriters such as Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger, mixing it with the DIY ethics and anarchist message ranging from anarcho-punk pioneers CRASS to the contemporary crust, black metal and hardcore punk music and aesthetics. A bunch of smelly crusties hopping trains, squatting empty houses, trashing dumpsters and busking on the streets is not an unusual countercultural image in the post-modern capitalist wasteland we’re all living in.
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