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Author : Steve Taylor
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 0826482171
Covers those bands and artists who have rejected the mainstream in favor of innovation, originality and the pursuit of their own unique musical identity.
Author : Will Hermes,Sia Michel
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 0307236625
Music's top journalists celebrate "Spin" magazine's 20th anniversary with original essays tracing the history of alternative rock.
Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781420507386
This volume discusses the history of alternative rock and the ethos of alt-rockers as rebels who value independence, experimentation, and truth-telling. Rather than making music for broad commercial appeal, these musicians drew from a variety of styles that were considered unfriendly for consumers. Over the years, alternative rock has spawned mash-ups of garage rock, punk, new wave, rap, thrash, and hardcore. This group of indie rockers not only created a new sound but also put forth a different attitude, as they outwardly rejected the musical standards and sales practices set by major record companies.
Author : Craig Schuftan
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780730497561
The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties In 1990 alternative music was where it belonged - underground. It left the business of rock stardom to rock stars. But by 1992 alternative rock had spawned a revolution in music and style that transformed youth culture and revived a moribund music industry. Five years later, alternative rock was over, leaving behind a handful of dead heroes, a few dozen masterpieces, and a lot more questions than answers. What, if anything, had the alternative revolution meant? And had it been possible - as so many of its heroes had insisted - for it to be both on MtV and under the radar? Had it used the machinery of corporate rock to destroy corporate rock? In ENtERtAIN US! Craig Schuftan takes you on a journey through the nineties - from Sonic Youth's 'Kool thing' to Radiohead's 'Kid A', NEVERMIND to ODELAY, Madchester to Nu-Metal, Lollapalooza to Woodstock '99 - narrated in the voices of the decade's most important artists. this is the story of alternative rock - the people who made it, the people who loved it, the industry that bought and sold it, and the culture that grew up in its wake - in the last decade of the twentieth century.
Author : Ernesto Lechner
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781556526039
Looks at the careers and musical contributions of alternative rock musicians who are writing and recording songs in Spanish.
Author : Grace Elizabeth Hale
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469654881
In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed in the sleepy southern college town of Athens, Georgia, only increased the fascination. Soon, more Athens bands followed the B-52's into the vanguard of the new American music that would come to be known as "alternative," including R.E.M., who catapulted over the course of the 1980s to the top of the musical mainstream. As acts like the B-52's, R.E.M., and Pylon drew the eyes of New York tastemakers southward, they discovered in Athens an unexpected mecca of music, experimental art, DIY spirit, and progressive politics--a creative underground as vibrant as any to be found in the country's major cities. In Athens in the eighties, if you were young and willing to live without much money, anything seemed possible. Cool Town reveals the passion, vitality, and enduring significance of a bohemian scene that became a model for others to follow. Grace Elizabeth Hale experienced the Athens scene as a student, small-business owner, and band member. Blending personal recollection with a historian's eye, she reconstructs the networks of bands, artists, and friends that drew on the things at hand to make a new art of the possible, transforming American culture along the way. In a story full of music and brimming with hope, Hale shows how an unlikely cast of characters in an unlikely place made a surprising and beautiful new world.
Author : Dave Thompson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0879306076
Provides profiles of solo performers, bands, producers, and record labels from the alternative rock movement, ranging from the mid-1970s to the present, and includes discographies, album reviews, and photographs.
Author : Adam Caress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Rock music
ISBN : 0692438157
At once a groundbreaking cultural history of rock music and an impassioned defense of the unique value of art, The Day Alternative Music Died is a timely and essential addition to the cultural discourse. Featuring a meticulously researched and eminently readable narrative that will appeal to both casual and diehard music fans, The Day Alternative Music Died tells the fascinating story of the tensions between artistic and commercial aspirations throughout the history of rock music. Author Adam Caress grafts the vital and untold story of the rise and fall of the alternative music scene in the 1980s and 90s into a larger rock music narrative that spans half a century, shedding light on a number of crucial developments in rock and popular music which remain widely misunderstood, even as they continue to have far-reaching implications for the future of music creation, consumption, and criticism. With a scope that encompasses everything from Bob Dylan's arrival on the rock scene in the mid-1960s through Spotify's recent attempts to establish a new model for music distribution, The Day Alternative Music Died provides engaging and valuable insight into what it means to be a music fan, artist, and critic here in the 21st Century.
Author : Pat Blashill
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Alternative rock music
ISBN : UCSD:31822023586266
"Photographs of more than sixty of the most popular alternative music bands capture the history and the rebelliousness of Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and others. Original. 50,000 first printing."--
Author : BBC Radio 6 Music
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781844038145
BBC Radio 6 Music is the station for people who are passionate about music: its award-winning presenters are constantly bringing a wealth of fresh tracks to the airwaves, from both new and established artists. In this book, BBC Radio 6 Music draws on its pool of knowledge and experience to provide an alternative offering to the mainstream music most radio stations play, bringing the reader an authoritative guide to 500 alternative classic songs and the stories behind them. Featuring contributions from the station's most popular DJs and producers - including Cerys Matthews, Craig Charles, Gilles Peterson and Huey Morgan - BBC Radio 6 Music's Alternative Jukebox is the perfect route to escaping the mainstream and discovering a world of unforgettable tracks. With choices of works by a diverse range of artists, such as Gil Scott-Heron, Gram Parsons, the Pixies and Ghostpoet, these are the songs that tell the story of alternative music.
Author : Ann C. Clements
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781607098577
This book provides personalized case studies of music programs that are engaging in alternative approaches. The diversity of these real-world case studies will inspire questioning and curiosity, stimulate lively discussion and innovation, and provide much food for thought.
Author : Michael Azerrad
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780316247184
The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties -- when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives re-energized American rock with punk's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. This sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith is an indie rock classic in its own right. The bands profiled include: Sonic Youth Black Flag The Replacements Minutemen Husker Du Minor Threat Mission of Burma Butthole Surfers Big Black Fugazi Mudhoney Beat Happening Dinosaur Jr.
Author : Wendy Mead
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766034011
"Read about the music, stars, clothes, contracts, and world of alternative rock music"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Jeff Gomez
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476649191
Grunge. Flannel. Generation X. In 1993, Seattle was the capital of the world, Nirvana was king, and slackers were everywhere. When the Red Hot organization, a group of activists dedicated to raising money and awareness of AIDS, released their third compilation CD featuring the biggest bands of the era--Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, The Breeders, Nirvana and more it quickly became the touchstone of a generation. Rolling Stone called No Alternative a "jaw-dropping compilation of musical gems." This book takes a look back at what happened to the bands involved with No Alternative. It includes new interviews with the musicians and others behind the record, and chronicles the downfall of an industry, the taming of a devastating illness, and the arrival of another global pandemic. It's about growing up, saying goodbye, and proving once more that you can't go home again (even if that's where you left all of your CDs).
Author : Michaelangelo Matos
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306903359
A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenes Everybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves - until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music. Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time.