About Amarilis Gibeli Expertise I actively search out want lists of rare, hard-to-find & out-of- print Lps & CDs, antiques and collectables items, books, lyrics, sheet music and any other audio/visual media & format as well, for individuals, traders, retail outlets and online auctions. My specialty is 60`s (psych & garage rock, doo-wop, girls groups, etc.) & 70`s (hard, punk, progressive, etc.), although I have acquired a large range of knowledge in the 80`s & 90`s and on any other style & period as well. As a researcher in musical subjects, I have received requests to write programme notes for modern & classical music, history of music, forms, contemporary music life, bibliographic references, among other topics.
Experience I'm an Independent Consultant for music legal rights & copyright
law (Musical Performance & Mechanical Rights) for 32 years in
Brazil, as well as private record collector, trader & music
researcher.
Organizations Sociedade Independente de Compositores e Autores Musicais
(SICAM), Sociedade Brasileira de Escritores de Musica (SABEM),
Escritorio Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição (ECAD), among
others copyright societies.
Education/Credentials Law School "Largo Sao Francisco", at the University of Sao
Paulo, Brazil. Still working as translator and subtitler at MTV Brazil.
I seem to recall that once Punk and New Wave (and all of their variants) had become mainstream, and when you could hear the tunes on top 40 stations, people had a hard time facing the fact they were listening to "pop" music. I knew there was trouble brewing when I heard The Stranglers on our local Top 40 pop radio station.
The term alternative (my tag was, and still is, "Mutant Pop") started popping up to describe non-mainstream bands in the mid-80s (I am not 100% sure of the timing) - Sonic Youth, Pixies, Smiths, etc.
As for Nirvana, yeah they had a short heyday of being alternative, but their talent & success blurred the lines ... particularly when copycat bands (sorry, but Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam, et al. (sorry, I really can't stand those sorts of bands. Mea Culpa!) did a lot to create a much wider audience for alternative music, which paradoxically is also the end of their involvement as alternative bands) started coming out of the woodwork, it was no time at all before EVERYONE was listening to alternative music. It's not really alternative, when the majority of people listen to it, yeah?
My position is that 95% of what is called alternative is good, ol' pop/rock and roll. Nothing wrong with it, but it is hardly alternative.
There you go. Crucify or immolate me, I'm ready! *ha*
