Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) 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 did not fit into the mainstream genres of the time. As a musical genre, alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the
independent music scene since the 1980s, such as
grunge,
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.
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ROCK ALTERNATIVO. MUSICA ROCK ALL'AVANGUARDIA CHE MESCOLA VARI STILI