Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana
by Gina Arnold
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Story of the punk rock era, its players, and its effect on American youth culture.Tags
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I read this book a longggggg time ago and I remember thinking that it was very random and not really about anything specifically.
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Gina Arnold is a former rock journalist and the author of Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, Kiss This: Punk in the Present Tense, and Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana. She is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Punk Rock. Arnold teaches rhetoric and media studies at the University of San Francisco.
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- Original title
- Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana
- Alternate titles
- Route Six Six Six
- People/Characters
- Kurt Cobain; Krist Novoselić (as Chris Novoselic); Dave Grohl; Courtney Love
- Important places
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Important events
- Grunge Movement; Seattle Sound; Punk Rock Movement
- Epigraph
- Music does my wishing for me.
--Exene Cervenka, 1984 - First words
- HONOLULU: "I hope you have good health insurance," Debbie says anxiously.
--Introduction - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It's around the next bend.
- Blurbers
- Sandow, Greg; Dalton, David; White, Timothy; Marcus, Greil; Savage, Jon
- Original language
- American English
Classifications
- Genres
- Music, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 782.42166 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal Music, Singing Secular forms of vocal music Songs General principles and musical forms Traditions of secular songs {genres} Rock songs
- LCC
- ML421 .N57 .A7 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
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- Languages
- English
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- ISBNs
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