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Thursday 16 December 2010

Orgins of genre: Alternative Rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as grunge, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop. These genres are unified by their collective debt to the style and/or ethos of punk rock, which laid the groundwork for alternative music in the 1970s.


The mainstream sucess was limited before the success of grunge and Britpop in the 1990s and it has been widespread since then. Citzen Cope have been called alternative rock as they have no real definative genre.


This is the red hot chilli pepper also said to be in the alternative rock genre we may take some elements from this video and try to comform with some of the ideas that we see in videos of a similar genre


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