{"product_id":"oasis-definitely-maybe-9781623564230","title":"Oasis' Definitely Maybe","description":"\u003cp\u003eOasis's incendiary 1994 debut album \u003ci\u003eDefinitely Maybe\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003ci\u003eDefinitely Maybe\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alex 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Niven\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer from the north-east of England. He has written for publications such as \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Quietus\u003c\/i\u003e, and his first book \u003ci\u003eFolk Opposition \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525029630226,"sku":"9781623564230","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1eb0dd19-f36f-4ad6-a997-d1e86d248cc0.jpg?v=1731199839","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/oasis-definitely-maybe-9781623564230","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}