Alternative Rock
02 Iunie 2008 Morrison
The terms alternative rock and alternative music were
coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which
didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time. At times it was used as
catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s and
rock music in general in the 1990s and 2000s.
More specifically, it is made
up mostly of genres that appeared in the 1980s and became popular or well
known by the 1990s, such as indie rock, grunge, post-punk, gothic rock, and
college rock. Most alternative bands were unified by their collective debt
to punk, which laid the groundwork for underground and alternative music in
the 1970s. Though the genre is considered to be rock, some of its genres
were influenced by folk music, reggae, techno and jazz music among other
genres.
