I bought a copy of Greil Marcus' Lipstick Traces when I was in Canberra last week. The text's account of the history of the 20th century starts from the challenge to pop culture of punk from the Sex Pistols. Marcus describes about this disruption:

The Sex Pistols made a breach in the pop milieu, in the sceen of received cultural assumptions governing what one expected to hear and how one expected to respond. Because received cultural assumptions are hegemonic propositions about the way the world is supposed to work--ideological constructs preceived and experienced as natural facts---the breach in pop milieu opened into the realm of everyday life: the milieu where, commuting to work, doing one's job in the home of the factory or the ofice or the mall, going to the movies, buying groceries, buying records, watching television, making love, having conversations, not having conversations, or making lists of what to do next, people actually lived

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