I want to know the answer to the following question:
What do contemporary scholars feel the post-punk period contributed in hindsight?
All the background I'm provided with is that "Nicholas Lezard wrote that the music of the period "was avant-garde, open to any musical possibilities that suggested themselves, united only in the sense that it was very often cerebral, concocted by brainy young men and women interested as much in disturbing the audience, or making them think, as in making a pop song".". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no