A
music style which does not fit into the mainstream genres of the time.
Alternative
rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative) is a genre of rock
music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. The term
"alternative" was coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired
bands on independent record labels that didn't fit into the mainstream genres
of the time. As a specific genre of music, alternative rock consists of various
subgenres that have emerged from the indie music scene since the 1980s, such as
grunge, indie rock, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop. These genres are unified
by their collective debt to the style and/or ethos of punk, which laid the groundwork
for alternative music in the 1970s.Though
the genre is considered to be rock, some of its subgenres are influenced by folk
music, reggae, electronic music and jazz among other genres. At times alternative
rock has been used as a catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists
in the 1980s, all music descended from punk rock (including punk itself, New Wave,
and post-punk), and, ironically, for rock music in general in the 1990s and 2000s. Alternative
Music
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