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Our Band Could Be Your Life

Our Band Could Be Your Life

Scenes from the American Indie Underground

by Michael Azerrad
Paperback
Publication Date: 06/02/2003
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It was a musical revolution that happened in the midst of Reagan's 80s: a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations and other subversives who re-shaped and re-energized American rock music with punk rock's revolutionary do-it-yourself credo. The music that resulted was deeply personal, always challenging and immensely influential. This book traces the arc of the American indie underground in the 1980s, from obscure beginnings to the point a decade later when the mainstream sat up and took notice. Beginning with the pioneering and notorious punk band, Black Flag, the story continues with the Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Minor Threat, Husker Du, the Replacements, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr, Fugazi, Mudhoney and Beat Happening, among others. Without major label support, these bands depended on resourcefulness, creativity and an all-powerful sense of community.
ISBN:
9780316787536
9780316787536
Category:
Punk
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
06-02-2003
Publisher:
Little, Brown & Company
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
528
Dimensions (mm):
209x140x35mm
Weight:
0.47kg
Michael Azerrad

Michael Azerrad is the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991, Come As You Are: the Story of Nirvana, and The Amplified Come as You Are, a deeply annotated version of his Nirvana biography.

A former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he has also written for the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and many other publications.  

He has edited and co-authored 24 books—on Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, George Harrison, and Patti Smith, to name a few—and has organized more than 250 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world of many of the leading artists and music photographers of our time.

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