9780814757482-0814757480-Sells like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis

Sells like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780814757482
ISBN-10: 0814757480
Edition: 11/15/09
Author: Ryan Moore
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: NYU Press
Format: Paperback 286 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780814757482
ISBN-10: 0814757480
Edition: 11/15/09
Author: Ryan Moore
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: NYU Press
Format: Paperback 286 pages

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Sells like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis (ISBN-13: 9780814757482 and ISBN-10: 0814757480), written by authors Ryan Moore, was published by NYU Press in 2009. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other History & Criticism (Music, Musical Genres, United States History, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Military History, Popular Culture, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Sells like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History & Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.32.

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Music has always been central to the cultures that young people create, follow, and embrace. In the 1960s, young hippie kids sang along about peace with the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and tried to change the world. In the 1970s, many young people ended up coming home in body bags from Vietnam, and the music scene changed, embracing punk and bands like The Sex Pistols. In Sells Like Teen Spirit, Ryan Moore tells the story of how music and youth culture have changed along with the economic, political, and cultural transformations of American society in the last four decades. By attending concerts, hanging out in dance clubs and after-hour bars, and examining the do-it-yourself music scene, Moore gives a riveting, first-hand account of the sights, sounds, and smells of “teen spirit.”
Moore traces the histories of punk, hardcore, heavy metal, glam, thrash, alternative rock, grunge, and riot grrrl music, and relates them to wider social changes that have taken place. Alongside the thirty images of concert photos, zines, flyers, and album covers in the book, Moore offers original interpretations of the music of a wide range of bands including Black Sabbath, Black Flag, Metallica, Nirvana, and Sleater-Kinney. Written in a lively, engaging, and witty style, Sells Like Teen Spirit suggests a more hopeful attitude about the ways that music can be used as a counter to an overly commercialized culture, showcasing recent musical innovations by youth that emphasize democratic participation and creative self-expression—even at the cost of potential copyright infringement.

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