AMS 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 67: Indie Rock, Underground Music, Alternative Rock
2 Apr 2018
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Tension between an educated listenership and a mass listenership. Growth of creative capitalism," niche markets, vs. declining standards of living for many. Underground music, popular at colleges, that takes punk rock forward in the. 1980s, believing that good does not have to equal popular. Sense of revisionism: making rock over again. Perry farrell of jane"s addiction creates tour of alternative bands from rock and hip-hop, summer of 1991 to summer of 1997. Generation x: tattoos and piercings, extreme sports, queer culture, no utopian sensibility.
