- popular culture, History and criticism, Alternative rock musicians, Alternative rock music
This book is a series of profiles of American indie rock bands from 1981 - 1991. Black Flag, Mission of Burma, the Minutemen, Husker Du, The Replacements, the Butthole Surfers, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr., Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, and Beat Happening -- one chapter on each, in an order that works its way through the decade chronologically.
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Nostalgic, classical in form, earnest and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Michael Azerrad
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 528
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company, Little, Brown, CAMION BLANC
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9788494093876
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“t's not surprising that the indie movement largely started in Southern California - after all, it had the infrastructure: Slash and Flipside fanzines started in 1977, and indie labels like Frontier and Posh Bov and Dangerhouse started soon afterward.”
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