Alternative
Music Forms
Popular music can generally be defined as
"commercially mass produced music for a mass market". Popular music
is also about popular culture - it shapes the way people dress, talk, wear
their hair, and, some say, other behaviour such as violence and drug use.
‘According to usual representations, pop music is all about youth, sexuality,
rebellion, outrageous haircuts, drugs, staying out all night dancing and
offending old people’
When we refer to "alternative"
music, we are referring to music that alternates from the mainstream in any
way, such as;
• Representation
• Style/Genre
• Lyrical
Content/Ideology
• Production
Distribution
• Consumption
• Fans
• Form
Alternative music is a
genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the
1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s. Most commonly associated in its
heyday with a distorted guitar sound, transgressed lyrics and a nonchalant
attitude
Most bands that are not recognised in the media as famous are
labelled usually as an alternate band, even Macklemore on the Radio 1 website
is labelled as ‘indie’ in the music charts as the top 10 is dominated by auto
tuned, hard bodied artist, who attract all the younger generations of female
fans, such as the Beliebers, or Directioners in society.
There are lots of different genres that make up alternative music;
·
Anti-Folk
·
Baggy
·
Punk Rock
·
Garage
Rock
·
Grunge
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Noise Rock
·
No-wave
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Post Punk
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Alternative
hip-hop
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Alternative
country
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Alternative
dance
·
Alternative
hip hop
·
Alternative
metal
