Grunge Music In The 1960s

Rock music breaks down into indie, hard rock, and metal. Each of these categories breaks down into even lesser known subgenres. These are usually followed by the more hardcore fans of that genre of music. Indie breaks down into emo, shoegaze, lo-fi, and electroclash. Hard rock breaks down into stadium rock, hard rock, and progressive rock. Metal breaks down into screamo, metalcore, and post hardcore (Mulligan, 2014). These genres have all emerged and evolved throughout the decades.
In the 1960s, people were expanding the boundaries of rock. The British Invasion (Mellor, 2010) helped to do this because of the influence from foreign countries as well as the already changing music style in the United States. Some of the bands involved in this were The Beatles, The Zombies, and The Dave Clark Five. A lot of people and artists in the 1960s and 1970s were experimenting with drugs, which influenced quite a bit of
Commercialism is the emphasis on the maximizing of profit. This caused grunge music to surface. Grunge music was a different kind of rock. The singer’s voices were more raspy. The lyrics were kind of similar to that of punk, but with less of an ‘anarchist’ tone. Some of the more popular bands that fit this genre were Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Smashing Pumpkins. People at this time also wanted to bring back punk and make it more popular, so they mixed punk rock with pop. Some of the bands that were a part of this were Green Day and the Offspring. There was also another subgenre of punk that came out at this time that was a bit less popular called ska-punk (MediaCommons, 2014). Ska-punk was a combination of Jamaican music, or reggae, and punk. For example, Sublime or Reel Big Fish. Some even think that No Doubt is a ska-punk group, but most disagree. During this time, there were multiple lyrical focuses, especially because what was popular was beginning to change