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Caroline Osella's avatar

I'm curious to hear more about how whiteness figures in all of this? In UK, rock vs disco is heavily inflected by white "I don't dance" masculinities.

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Amod Sandhya Lele's avatar

I'm late to this party, but in the early-mid '90s after Nirvana took off, I'd say there was a significant anti-fandom against glam metal and the pre-grunge melodic/arena rock bands that were now perceived as "inauthentic". In Beaujour and Bienstock's Nöthin' But A Good Time, the closing chapters talk about phenomena like the Beastie Boys' "Mullet Head" and the loser kid on Beavis and Butthead wearing a Winger T-shirt: the cool thing to do circa 1993 wasn't just to lose interest in "hair metal" but to actively hate it. It wasn't as intense as the earlier backlash against disco, but it was there.

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