Question: What else was music incorrectly catagorized into before post-punk?
Answer: new wave music

Question: Why is the term post-punk sometimes disputed?
Answer: various groups commonly labeled post-punk in fact predate the punk rock movement

Question: What is the acctepted era of post-punk?
Answer: between 1978 and 1984

Question: What previous movement is post-punk often identified as coming after?
Answer: punk rock

Question: What were many groups now labeled as post-punk initially categorized as?
Answer: punk or new wave music

Question: Why has the prefix 'post' caused a bit of dispute as it relates to various post-punk groups?
Answer: predate the punk rock movement

Question: Who has defined a period of when the post-punk era was?
Answer: Reynolds

Question: Between what years did Reynolds identify the post-punk era as existing?
Answer: 1978 and 1984

Question: WHich independent music company was founded by Geoff Travis?
Answer: Rough Trade

Question: Who founded Factory?
Answer: Tony Wilson

Question: When did releasing music indepentently really hit popularity?
Answer: 1977

Question: Who released Spiral Scratch on their own label?
Answer: Buzzcocks

Question: When did the indoe music scene begin to grow?
Answer: mid-1980s

Question: What did many entrepreneurs interested in their local punk-influenced music scenes found?
Answer: independent record labels

Question: Who founded the record label Rough Trade?
Answer: Geoff Travis

Question: Where was Tony Wilson's Factory based?
Answer: Manchester

Question: When did some groups start looking for methods to release their music themselves?
Answer: 1977

Question: Whose label did the Buzzcocks release their Spiral Scratch EP on?
Answer: their own

Question: When did writers for Sounds first mention "post punk"?
Answer: late 1977

Question: What did Wire do with sounds, lyrics and aesthetics which different a lot from their peers?
Answer: experimenting

Question: What career path did Jon Savage take in life?
Answer: Writer

Question: When did the Sex Pistols break up?
Answer: January 1978

Question: Who was Siouxsie backed by?
Answer: the Banshees

Question: What are examples of British bands termed post-punk?
Answer: Siouxsie and the Banshees and Wire

Question: Who connsidered post-punk "harsh urban scrapings [,] controlled white noise" and "massively accented drumming"?
Answer: Jon Savage

Question: Which band's lead singer was Johnny Rotten?
Answer: Sex Pistols

Question: What was Johnny Rotten's real name?
Answer: John Lydon

Question: When did the Sex Pistols break up?
Answer: 1978

Question: When the punk movement started shrinking, what began to fill the void left by their demise?
Answer: vibrant new scenes

Question: What territory did the post-punk bands pursue in their works?
Answer: wider conceptual

Question: What nationality's music magazines had an influential part of post-punk culture?
Answer: British

Question: What professional is Ian Penman known from?
Answer: writers

Question: What kind of background did many of the initial post-punk artists have?
Answer: art

Question: Who were well known authors covering the post-punk era?
Answer: Jon Savage, Paul Morley and Ian Penman

Question: What were popular post-punk culture media sources?
Answer: NME and Sounds

Question: What were the bands coming in on the heels of post-punk beginning to sound like?
Answer: experimental sounds and wider conceptual territory

Question: What was a common background of post-punk musicians?
Answer: backgrounds in art

Question: What was a common theme to post-punk music?
Answer: political or aesthetic agendas

Question: Who was responsible for disbanding the Sex Pistols?
Answer: Lydon

Question: What group declared itself to be anti-music of any kind?
Answer: Public Image Ltd

Question: Where did Joy Division hail from?
Answer: Manchester

Question: What type of literature contributed to Joy Division's unique style?
Answer: modernist

Question: What end of the political spectrum was the political philosophy of Gang of Four?
Answer: Leftist

Question: What band did Johnny Rotten form after the Sex Pistols?
Answer: Public Image Ltd

Question: What kind of group was Public Image Ltd?
Answer: "anti music of any kind"

Question: Which bands combined way left politics with art school studies?
Answer: Scritti Politti, Gang of Four and This Heat

Question: What are some British post-punk bands from Manchester?
Answer: Joy Division, The Fall and A Certain Ratio

Question: Which post-punk bands began to branch off into things like dub and dance music?
Answer: Pop Group and the Slits

Question: What type of producer was Martin Hannett?
Answer: post-punk

Question: What type of production techniques did Dennis Bovell develop?
Answer: innovative

Question: What took a central roll for the emerging post-punk music?
Answer: studio experimentation

Question: What eventually resulted in the pioneering of industrial music?
Answer: crude production techniques

Question: Whose independent label became a hub for the industrial scene?
Answer: Throbbing Gristle's

Question: Who were producers that led the way with emerging the post-punk culture?
Answer: Martin Hannett and Dennis Bovell

Question: What was the name of Throbbing Gristle's record label?
Answer: Industrial Records

Question: Which bands were on the forefront of industrial music?
Answer: Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle

Question: Where did industrial music get it's name?
Answer: Industrial Records

Question: What was one of the most important ways that post-punk artists created their new sound?
Answer: studio experimentation

Question: What nationality began birthing groups who expanded the vocabulary of punk music?
Answer: American

Question: From what region did the group Devo originate? 
Answer: Midwestern

Question: Where was the band Talking Heads based out of?
Answer: New York

Question: Who did the Talking Heads begin a series of collaborations with in 1978?
Answer: Brian Eno

Question: What region's post-punk scene incorporated ideas from Theater of Cruelty?
Answer: San Francisco's

Question: When did the American groups begin to really get in on the post-punk movement?
Answer: mid 1970s

Question: Which American bands had ties to the Manchester punk scene?
Answer: Television and Suicide

Question: What were some Midwestern punk bands?
Answer: Pere Ubu and Devo

Question: What did Pere and Devo draw inspiration for their music from?
Answer: derelict industrial environments

Question: What were groups in San Francisco's post-punk scene?
Answer: Chrome, the Residents and Tuxedomoon

Question: What type of worldview did New York's no wave movement tend to have?
Answer: nihilistic

Question: The Contortions, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks were all musicians part of what movement?
Answer: No wave

Question: Who produced the compilation "No New York"?
Answer: Eno

Question: What no wave-affiliated label was founded in 1978?
Answer: ZE Records

Question: In addition to non-rock styles, what did some of the no-wave groups experiment with sonically?
Answer: noise, dissonance and atonality

Question: What was no wave?
Answer: a short-lived art and music scene that began in part as a reaction against punk's recycling of traditionalist rock tropes

Question: What type of a view did no wave have?
Answer: an abrasive, confrontational and nihilistic

Question: What types of musicians were the Contortions, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, DNA, Theoretical Girls and Rhys Chatham?
Answer: No wave

Question: When was ZE Records founded?
Answer: 1978

Question: What was considered the true portrait of the no wave movement?
Answer: No New York

Question: How did critics respond to British post-punk groups in the 1980s?
Answer: support

Question: What nationality was the critic who positively characterized Britain's postpunk scene in an 1980 Rolling Stone article?
Answer: American