Essay: Punk would have died without post-punk's questions

PopMatters has an excellent article about post-punk, here's an excerpt: "Like 76 punk, post-punk was reactive in nature, and thus was inevitable and necessary for punk's survival. Without it, punk would have eaten itself; with it punk was able to develop and diversify beyond its initial confines. As such, post-punk not only tells the story of what came after punk, but also of the punk past it rejected".