Tham khảo tài liệu 'emotional versus logical 4', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | LEARNINGEXPRESS ANSWER SHEET 1. 2. 3. b 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. @@@@@@@@@@ 151 POSTTEST Posttest The posttest consists of a series of reading passages with questions that follow to test your comprehension. Grunge Music and American Popular Culture The late 1980s found the landscape of popular music in America dominated by a distinctive style of rock and roll known as Glam Rock or Hair Metal so called because of the over-styled hair makeup and wardrobe worn by the genre s ostentatious rockers. Bands like Poison Whitesnake and Motley Crue popularized glam rock with their power ballads and flashy style but the product had worn thin by the early 1990s. Just as superficial as the 80s glam rockers were shallow short on substance and musically inferior. In 1991 a Seattle-based band called Nirvana shocked the corporate music industry with the release of its debut single Smells Like Teen Spirit which quickly became a huge hit all over the world. Nirvana s distorted guitarladen sound and thought-provoking lyrics were the antithesis of glam rock and the youth of America were quick to pledge their allegiance to the brand-new movement known as grunge. Grunge actually got its start in the Pacific Northwest during the mid-1980s. Nirvana had simply mainstreamed a sound and culture that got its start years before with bands like Mudhoney Soundgarden and Green River. Grunge rockers derived their fashion sense from the youth culture of the Pacific Northwest a melding of punk rock style and outdoors clothing like flannels heavy boots worn out jeans and corduroys. At the height of the movement s popularity when other Seattle bands like Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains were all the rage the trappings of grunge were working their way to the height of American fashion. Like the music the teenagers were fast to embrace the grunge fashion
