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jon_chaisson[This is a sorta-crossposted shoutout I originally posted on Facebook. This is the longer LJ version that goes into further detail, which will also be x-posted to FB, so sorry to the FBers who are seeing this twice.]
I'm in the midst of research for a non-fic book called Walk In Silence about 80s college radio (rough timeline, 1982-1991...basically post-New Wave to pre-Grunge)--the genre/era that would become today's alt.rock that we all know and love. I posted notes and ideas about this project here awhile back, but the main objective here is that I wanted to write a non-fic book about the era of alternative rock that changed my life and became an obsession, and how it came about, and how it influenced others, and how it's changed over the years.
At this point I've got quite a few short snippets of memories and history on hand that I could build upon, but most of them are pretty much from my own point of view. What I'd like to do is get some other people's ideas, memories, and thoughts, and compare how this music genre affected others aside from myself. I would also like to get a decent grasp on the history of the genre as well as the mindset of the time. That will most likely be my heaviest bit of research to be done.
I want to avoid writing too much about the "scenes" (that is, place-specific music scenes like New York, Boston, Seattle, etc., as well as subgenre-specific, such as goth/hipster/indie/etc.)--there are quite a few books on them out there already. This is more along the lines of a Nick Hornby/Rob Sheffield/John Sellers type of book.
Would anyone be interested in being interviewed about it (their knowledge, love of it, memories of it, how it changed their lives, etc), or perhaps know of college radio djs of that era as well that could supply radio-centric history/info? If anything, I would be emailing you a short(-ish) questionnaire regarding on how you came upon this genre, favorite bands, fond memories of songs/albums/etc., things like that. I may follow up with other questions, but for now I'll keep the questions and things relatively short and easy.
If anyone's interested, or know of anyone who would be interested, please let me know by commenting here or dropping me an email at joncwriter (at) yahoo (dot) com.
Thanks!
I'm in the midst of research for a non-fic book called Walk In Silence about 80s college radio (rough timeline, 1982-1991...basically post-New Wave to pre-Grunge)--the genre/era that would become today's alt.rock that we all know and love. I posted notes and ideas about this project here awhile back, but the main objective here is that I wanted to write a non-fic book about the era of alternative rock that changed my life and became an obsession, and how it came about, and how it influenced others, and how it's changed over the years.
At this point I've got quite a few short snippets of memories and history on hand that I could build upon, but most of them are pretty much from my own point of view. What I'd like to do is get some other people's ideas, memories, and thoughts, and compare how this music genre affected others aside from myself. I would also like to get a decent grasp on the history of the genre as well as the mindset of the time. That will most likely be my heaviest bit of research to be done.
I want to avoid writing too much about the "scenes" (that is, place-specific music scenes like New York, Boston, Seattle, etc., as well as subgenre-specific, such as goth/hipster/indie/etc.)--there are quite a few books on them out there already. This is more along the lines of a Nick Hornby/Rob Sheffield/John Sellers type of book.
Would anyone be interested in being interviewed about it (their knowledge, love of it, memories of it, how it changed their lives, etc), or perhaps know of college radio djs of that era as well that could supply radio-centric history/info? If anything, I would be emailing you a short(-ish) questionnaire regarding on how you came upon this genre, favorite bands, fond memories of songs/albums/etc., things like that. I may follow up with other questions, but for now I'll keep the questions and things relatively short and easy.
If anyone's interested, or know of anyone who would be interested, please let me know by commenting here or dropping me an email at joncwriter (at) yahoo (dot) com.
Thanks!
