Grunge has been perceived as the music that defined 'Generation X'. Twenty years after the height of the movement there is still considerable interest in its rise and fall, and its main figures such as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. As a form of 'retro' music it is even experiencing a resurgence, and Cobain remains an icon to many young music fans today. But what was grunge, and what has it become? This book explores how grunge has been remembered by the fans that grew up with it, and asks how memory is both formed by and forms popular culture. It looks at the relationship between media,...
Grunge has been perceived as the music that defined 'Generation X'. Twenty years after the height of the movement there is still considerable interest...
Barbara Lebrun Catherine Strong Professor Derek B. Scott
The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the resurrection of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012, have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music, fame and death. If the phrase sex, drugs and rock n roll ever qualified a lifestyle, it has left many casualties in its wake, and with the ranks of dead musicians growing over time, so the types of death involved and the reactions to them have diversified. Conversely, as many artists who fronted the rock n roll revolution of the 1950s and 1960s...
The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the resurrection of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music ...
