Alternative rock 音乐流派介绍

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock

另类摇滚，即Alternative Rock。

另类摇滚之所以叫另类摇滚，因为它本来确实是另类的、没人听的。它在70年代是地下的，在80年代是半地下的，在90年代上升为主流，这时已经不是“另类”了，但是由于历史原因“另类摇滚”一词保留了下来。所以今天听到的主流摇滚乐，虽然大家都在听，仍然叫另类摇滚。

独立摇滚和另类摇滚的区别：前者强调的是发行厂牌的规模，后者强调的是受众多少。然而，在90年代涅槃乐队取得巨大成功，2000年代互联网上涌现出一批热门的独立乐队之后，无论是独立摇滚还是另类摇滚，都已成为主流音乐类型了。它仍然叫“另类摇滚”是为了保持和以前叫法的一致。

换句话说，以前是另类的，变成了主流，这种现象在艺术领域屡见不鲜。贝多芬和斯特拉文斯基刚出来的时候，是绝对的另类，但是时间改变了另类与否的标准。

The name "alternative rock" essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s.^[29] Throughout much of its history, alternative rock has been largely defined by its rejection of the commercialism of mainstream culture, although this could be contested ever since some of the major alternative artists have achieved mainstream success or co-opted with the major labels from the 1990s onward (especially since the new millennium and beyond). Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in small clubs, recorded for indie labels, and spread their popularity through word of mouth.^[30] As such, there is no set musical style for alternative rock as a whole, although The New York Times in 1989 asserted that the genre is "guitar music first of all, with guitars that blast out power chords, pick out chiming riffs, buzz with fuzztone and squeal in feedback."^[31] More often than in other rock-styles since the mainstreaming of rock music during the 1970s, alternative rock lyrics tend to address topics of social concern, such as drug use, depression, suicide, and environmentalism.^[30] This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s and early 1990s.^[32]