{"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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623564230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.40h x 4.70w x 0.50d","brand":"Alex Niven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42917341102261,"sku":"9781623564230","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ad790bfb-2809-4dd9-b528-72ea10d01954.jpg?v=1687282798","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/oasis-definitely-maybe-9781623564230","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}