Soundgarden
Towards a sociology of excess in the grunge movement (1984-1994)
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https://doi.org/10.52521/opp.v23n1.14663Keywords:
cultural scenes, grunge, Soundgarden, SeattleAbstract
This paper seeks to understand and explore the ideas of risk and excess as sociological categories of analysis. Taking as a heuristic example the grunge movement that began in Seattle in the mid-1980s – and in particular the band Soundgarden – this digression seeks to connect the stylistic, performative and musical expressions of grunge from a complex set of social and cultural conditioning that are external to it. Operating from the perspective of cultural sociology, we will try to situate grunge within the broader framework of profound transformations experienced in the last two decades of the 20th century, describing the role of generational anxieties for culture.
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