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Oasis' Definitely Maybe

Oasis' Definitely Maybe

Oasis' Definitely Maybe
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Oasis' Definitely Maybe Paperback - 2014

by Niven, Alex,

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  • Title Oasis' Definitely Maybe
  • Author Niven, Alex,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publication date 2014-05-08
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 19261357-n
  • ISBN 9781623564230 / 1623564239
  • Weight 0.05 lbs (0.02 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.4 x 4.7 x 0.4 in (16.26 x 11.94 x 1.02 cm)
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Oasis (Rock group)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013049455
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.421
  • Quantity available 5

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A brilliant study of Oasis' debut album, highlighting the band's massive cultural impact and the raw, positive power of those early songs.

Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes and dreams of a people than any other record of the last quarter century.

In a Britain that had just undergone the most damaging period of social upheaval in a century under the Thatcher government, Noel Gallagher ventriloquized slogans of burning communitarian optimism through the mouth of his brother Liam and the playing of the other Oasis 'everymen': Paul McGuigan, Paul Arthurs and Tony McCarroll. On Definitely Maybe, Oasis communicated a timeworn message of idealism and hope against the odds, but one that had special resonance in a society where the widening gap between high and low demanded a newly superhuman kind of leaping.

Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as "Live Forever," "Supersonic," and "Cigarettes & Alcohol." In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.

About the author

Alex Niven is a writer from the north-east of England. He has written for publications such as The Guardian, LA Review of Books and The Quietus, and his first book Folk Opposition was published in 2011.

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