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postpunk

a. (context music English) Of or pertaining to the period following the punk period n. A rock music genre that followed punk rock and was more artistic and experimental, laying the foundations for alternative rock.

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A rock group, the Sonic Youth, dubbed themselves cyberpunks and featured a song called "The Sprawl" on their album, Daydream Nation (1988), while Kathy Acker, the postpunk godmother of the London fiction scene, wrote that parts of her novel, Empire of the Senseless (1988), are directly "ripped off" from Neuromancer.