Describe alternative rock and its cultural significance in the 1980s.
What will be an ideal response?
Young adults interested in new sounds and feeling stuck in an economic recession, could relate to negativity of some underground and alternative music; Pop music that appealed to a mass market was heavily marketed on MTV and other places-"alternative" music was the alternative to pop; Bands and fans wanted to avoid commercialization of large record companies; Desire to avoid over pricing of concert tickets and CD sales; Fugazi's mail-order address for CDs; General desire for bands to avoid stardom and continue to reflect the thinking and concerns of their fans; The pounding beat of punk often used in alternative music; Songs often take stands on political issues: R.E.M.'s Document (1987) and Green albums (1988).
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