Grunge, genre et style : analyse d'un phénomène du rock américain des années 1990
The world discovered grunge in 1991 thanks to the popularity of Nirvana’s « Smells Like Teen Spirit». During almost half of a decade, the American popular music changed profoundly and grunge appeared to be the standard bearer of an entire generation. With heavy guitars and an alleged nihilism, grunge was embodied through strong imagery and around the city of Seattle, Washington. Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains joined the success of grunge, but is it really possible to define what appears to be a « genre » trough stylistic considerations ? This work suggests, at first, reconsidering grunge in its aspects of « genre », to try then to decode its possible stylistic unit. Grunge popularizing, at the beggining of the 1990’s, in a era of great call into question about music consumption and production because of democratization of audio digital technologies. Do these changes were able to influence, and even to condition the emergence and the popularization of that new style ?
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