Belen Ortiz Brenda Garcia Ayala Grunge Urban tribes Belen Ortiz Brenda Garcia Ayala

Introduction This urban tribe was born in Seattle in the 90s and they are very interested in music and refuse the consumist society and people without personality. They hear music from Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sonic Youth... They have a dirty look and they wear stripped and coloured T-shirts or "scottish" shirts, ripped jeans and coloured shoes.

Aesthetic codes The grunge look is a style based around the grunge music scene--it's comfortable, dirty, and heavily steeped in flannel. To get the grunge look, you'll need to visit a thrift store, do some damage to some denim, and develop an I-don't-care attitude.

Music Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in Seattle. The early grunge movement revolved around Seattle's independent record label Sub Pop, but by the early 1990s its popularity had spread, with grunge acts in California and other parts of the U.S. building strong followings and signing major record deals.

Grunge became commercially successful in the first half of the 1990s, due mainly to the release of Nirvana's Nevermind, Pearl Jam's Ten, Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, Alice in Chains' Dirt, and Stone Temple Pilots' Core. The success of these bands boosted the popularity of alternative rock and made grunge the most popular form of hard rock music at the time.

Identity symbols Grunge is generally characterized by a sludgy guitar sound that uses a high level of distortion, fuzz and feedback effects. Grunge fuses elements of hardcore punk and heavy metal. Lyrics are typically angst-filled, often addressing themes such as social alienation, apathy, confinement and a desire for freedom. Clothing commonly worn by grunge musicians in Washington consisted of thrift store items and the typical flannel shirts.

Rules -Outfit -Protest the mainstream by opting out -Learn to appreciate unpopular things. -Make your hobbies your life -Move to the city. -Listening to the Music(Nirvana) -Learn what you're listening to. -Get familiar with the essential records and bands.

Language (Grunge speak words) bloated, big bag of bloatation: drunk bound-and-hagged: staying home on Friday or Saturday night cob nobbler: loser dish: desirable guy fuzz: heavy wool sweaters harsh realm: bummer kickers: heavy boots lamestain: uncool person plats: platform shoes rock on: a happy goodbye tom-tom club: uncool outsiders

SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Before “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” grunge was nothing but a handful of bands in the Pacific Northwest who played rock music. But after its release, grunge was suddenly a genre, a movement, a lifestyle, a cosmic and quaking shift in the trajectory of music history. Call the song overrated or overplayed or whatever you want—because it probably isn’t even the best Nirvana song—but grunge doesn’t become a massive worldwide entity without it. It changed everything, bringing a subculture into the spotlight and giving it not only a face but a voice. Kurt Cobain has since become enshrined in the music cannon thanks to this track’s breakthrough; and whether that’s due to radio play, MTV airtime, endless media coverage or just Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl’s supernatural musical chemistry, the fact remains: no song captures a moment in time and represents all of the complexity and audacity that accompanied it quite like this one. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is the very best of what grunge had to offer. Twenty-three years later, it still brims with as much apprehension, apathy and angst as it did back in 1991. It always will. —Michael Danaher https://youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg