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=ALTERNATIVE MUSIC!!!!=

Alternative music is, in my opinion, amazing. It's kinda like a clash of all music. The artists play with all types of music and all types of instruments. Most people consider Alternative music bands that have decided to play away from the social norms and the bands were normally underground and signed with independent labels.

The point of our ethnomusicology project is to relate a type of music or instrument back to African roots. Since Alternative music is like the child of all types of music, it should be fun finding African influence throughout the generations of Alternative music.

Music can be split into different genres of that music. My main type will be alternative, but in each generation the genre has a different name as you will see while you go through each year.

A band by the name of Beastie boys [[image:beastie_boys.jpg]]
The group consists of three members Mike Diamond (Mike D), Adam Horovitz (Ad Rock), and Adam Yauch (MCA). Most alternative bands in the 80's were looked at with the title "New Wave". The song we are going to be looking at by The Beastie Boys is, "Girls". media type="file" key="06 Girls.m4a" width="300" height="50" African music has specific parts in it one of these parts is call and response in the song "Girls" you can hear the call and response.

**Next up the 90's!** The 90's were when Alternative music really boomed the band leading this boom was Nirvana ... oh Nirvana! Kurt Cobain who is still famous even after his suicide was the lead singer and guitarist, Dave Grohl who was the drummer and now plays for the Foo Fighters, Krist Novoselic was on bass and is now a politician. This style of music was called grunge but is now but into the alternative rock category. While Nirvana is best known for their popular song "Smells Like Teen Spirt" I have decided to use the song "Jesus doesn't want me" media type="file" key="03 Jesus Doesn't Want Me.mp3" width="240" height="20" The guitar in the back ground holds the same rhythm and beat throughout the song.

Nine Inch Nails (NIN) An awesome band with some really good songs. Trent Reznor is the only official band member he has been in it since the beginning. There style was called industrial but is now called Alternative. My favorite song from them is "F££ k me like an animal" but to keep this page clean as possible I will examine another one of their songs titled "The Hand That Feeds". media type="file" key="Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds.mp3" width="240" height="20" The lyrics in this song follow the instruments. Getting louder with certain beats and softer with others. This is called syncopation many African songs have this. **

The 2000's
This is when people really got into Alternaive ... and many stopped. Many of the bands that are now labled alternative are not liked by rock band lovers and such. I disagree so here is the Alternative music of the 2000's

Cobra Starship Gabe Saporta is the lead singer, Ryland Blackinton plays lead guitar, Ales Suarez is on Bass, Nate Novarro is the drummer, and the female of the band is Victoria Asher who plays the keyboard. Cobra Starship can be called either Alternative or Pop punk. Guilty Pleasure from their earlier CD's and is a fantastic song in my opinion. media type="file" key="Guilty Pleasure.mp3" width="240" height="20" An expamle of call and response would be "And maybe someday I'll believe Maybe someday I'll believe" ~ This is call and response in the song with the second line a reply to the first line.

Many African songs also feature a dance in this song there is also a dance. While African dances are to tell a certain story. The dance routine in "Guilty Pleasure" is just for fun. HOW TO DO THE DANCE: media type="file" key="Movie 4.mov" width="300" height="300"

The Official Music Video
http://www.mtvmusic.com/artist/cobra_starship/videos/230500/guilty_pleasure

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=Bibliography:= http://africanmusic.org/ http://www.cobrastarship.com/ http://www.nirvana-music.com/ http://www.nin.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys