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Alternative rock is made up of various subgenres that have come out of the indie music scene since the 1980s, such as grunge, indie rock, britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop these genres are sorted by their collective types of punk, which laid the groundwork for alternative music in the 1970s. The world book encyclopedia by world book encyclopedia. The new owners created an editorial board to help make sure the entries were aligned with what students studied. For the life of me i cannot remember, what made us think that we were wise and wed never compromise.
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