{"product_id":"33-1-3-oasis-definitely-maybe","title":"33 1\/3 Volume 095: Oasis' Definitely Maybe","description":"\u003cp\u003eA brilliant study of Oasis' debut album, highlighting the band's massive cultural impact and the raw, positive power of those early songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless. But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes and dreams of a people than any other record of the last quarter century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a Britain that had just undergone the most damaging period of social upheaval in a century under the Thatcher government, Noel Gallagher ventriloquized slogans of burning communitarian optimism through the mouth of his brother Liam and the playing of the other Oasis 'everymen': Paul McGuigan, Paul Arthurs and Tony McCarroll. On Definitely Maybe, Oasis communicated a timeworn message of idealism and hope against the odds, but one that had special resonance in a society where the widening gap between high and low demanded a newly superhuman kind of leaping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as “Live Forever,” “Supersonic,” and “Cigarettes \u0026amp; Alcohol.” In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/333sound.com\/\"\u003eKeep up with 33 1\/3 series news.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Alexander Niven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144pp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5 x 6.5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 8, 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1623564230\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50453657944320,"sku":"9781623564230","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/3902\/files\/33oasdefmay.jpg?v=1790284582","url":"https:\/\/atomicbooks.com\/products\/33-1-3-oasis-definitely-maybe","provider":"Atomic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}