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Oasis' Definitely Maybe (33 1/3)
Alex Niven
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Description for Oasis' Definitely Maybe (33 1/3)
paperback. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 148 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Condition
New
Series
33 1/3
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781623564230
SKU
9781623564230
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About Alex Niven
Alex Niven is a writer from the north-east of England. He has written for publications such as The Guardian, LA Review of Books and The Quietus, and his first book Folk Opposition was published in 2011.
Reviews for Oasis' Definitely Maybe (33 1/3)
As well as an accomplished assessment of an underrated album from an overrated band, the book is a salutary example of how to interpret politics through culture, and culture through politics.
Rhian E Jones
Los Angeles Review of Books
It is a credible thesis, borne out by the history of the band and its music ... As ... Read more
Rhian E Jones
Los Angeles Review of Books
It is a credible thesis, borne out by the history of the band and its music ... As ... Read more