Niven Alex - Oasis Definitely Maybe - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post - fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes and dreams of a people than any other record of the last quarter century. In a Britain that had just undergone the most damaging period of social upheaval in a century under the Thatcher government Noel Gallagher ventriloquized slogans of burning communitarian optimism through the mouth of his brother Liam and the playing of the other Oasis everymen : Paul Mc Guigan Paul Arthurs and Tony Mc Carroll. On Definitely Maybe Oasis communicated a timeworn message of idealism and hope against the odds but one that had special resonance in a society where the widening gap between high and low demanded a newly superhuman kind of leaping. Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life - affirming communal force of songs such as Live Forever Supersonic and Cigarettes & Alcohol. In doing so he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop - cultural narratives of the last thirty years.
Title: Oasis Definitely Maybe
Author(s): Niven Alex
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781623564230
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 5/8/2014
Series: 33 1/3
Category: Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups