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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 5
Description: Every once in a while, humankind has one of those pivotal years where everything changes...325 AD and the council of Nicea...1215 and the signing of the Magna Carta...the discoveries of 1492..The revolutions of 1789...1919 and the Treaty of Versailles...the great stock market crash of 1929...the dark days of World War II in 1942...the unrest of 1968...the fall of the iron curtain in 1989...In there somewhere is 1977...okay, so to say it was as important to world history as some of these other years might be stretching it...but still, a lot happened......