Alternative rock music
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Alternative rock music
- This heading is assigned to alternative rock music for two or more performers.
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96004375
- info:lc/authorities/sh96004375
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh96004375#concept
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- Alternative music
- Alternative pop/rock music
- Indie music
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Sources
- found: Work cat.: 96019373: Blashill, P. Noise from the underground : a secret history of alternative rock, 1996 (alternative; alternative music)
- found: Rolling stone, 1995: no. 709 (alternative rock)
- found: NY Times, Jan. 10, 1994: p. C18 (alternative rock)
- found: 00300326: Strong, M.C. The great alternative & indie discography, 1999 (originally intended to cover punk and new wave; also covers grunge)
- found: Shuker, R. Key concepts in popular music, 1998 (alternative rock/alternative music: broad label and loose genre/style, used since late 1960s for popular music seen as less commercial and mainstream, and more authentic and "uncompromising"; closely associated with independent record labels, and accordingly sometimes referred to as indie music; term "alternative" originally used in late 1960s to refer to UK and US underground or counter culture performers; punk in late 1970s was clearly alternative, and present scene builds on remains of punk; alternative label has subsequently been applied to the grunge bands of the late 1980s and 1990s and remnants of the underground/counter culture)
- found: AMG All Music Guide WWW home page, Feb. 26, 2003: Alternative Pop/Rock (catch-all term for post-punk bands from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s; variety of musical styles within alternative rock, all tied together since they existed outside of the mainstream; lost some of its quirkier tendencies in the '90s, most experimental bands relegated to indie rock)
General Notes
- This heading is assigned to alternative rock music for two or more performers.
Change Notes
- 2005-05-26: new
- 2008-12-03: revised
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