Hebdige dates the origin of punk in the music press to the summer of 1976 as an alliance of diverse and superficially incompatible music traditions reproduced on the visual level in a clothing style....

Hebdige dates the origin of punk in the music press to the summer of 1976 as an alliance of diverse and superficially incompatible music traditions reproduced on the visual level in a clothing style. He interprets punk culture, in part, as a British White working-class “translation” of Black ethnicity and, in part, as the intentional selfconstruction of “otherness,” which challenged, on a symbolic level, class and gender stereotypes.