Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...problem for anyone trying to make what Bob Marley once called "rebel music" today is not that there's too little rebellion out there but, by Western pop culture's liberal definition, that there's way too much. Since the dawn of rock 'n' roll, popular music has been de facto rebellious, at least insofar as the term is defined by record labels and soft-drink ads. All it takes to be a rebel in America, it seems, is to be young and loud. In a music culture where a rebel is the Backstreet Boy with a goatee...
...Olympia indie-cum-grunge scene what Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols were to punk rock—what began as an esoteric musical offshoot of political turmoil (in the case of punk, economic and social turmoil in late-1970’s Britain; in the case of indie, rebellion against traditional gender roles in music and disdain towards the mass marketing of an art form) was deliberately sold as bandwagon rebellion. As Bart Simpson said while the Smashing Pumpkins played in front of him at Lollapalooza, “making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel...
Despite the tenets of alienation and disillusionment upon which punk and grunge were founded, the act of selling rebellion to the masses became dependent upon making music with far-reaching commercial appeal. Although this required the purveyors of such music to all but abandon the ethos of rebellion against the status quo, this was not the case for the fans. And here lies the decline of Vicious, who began as a lower-class Pistols devotee who identified with the anger and frustration inherent in punk rock. Although Vicious was a prototypical fan of punk rock, he did not mesh well...
...ambitious agenda encompasses everything from police reform, stamping out corruption and cutting a political deal to end the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas to opening up Mexico's heavily bureaucratized economy to the bracing winds of market forces. And right now, he's not doing very well. Nor could he be expected to, since the legislature is controlled by his enemies. Russian reformer Boris Yeltsin had the same problem in the '90s, but Fox doesn't have Yeltsin's option of sending in tanks to shell parliament. So, much of his agenda remains stalled...
...cool by writing checks," says Fireman. The Reebok chief is counting on his big-league deals and projects like Diamond, a kind of high-end designer boutique within Reebok that aims to develop the trendsetting sneakers and street fashion of tomorrow. This time around, Paul Fireman's state of rebellion may be here to stay for a while...