Underground History

The term underground applies to different artistic moments such as psychedelic music moments of mid 1960s.This term is now more related to artists/bands who avoids becoming mainstream. In modern popular music the term underground refers to bands and artists that are signed with independent record labels, and they typically perform in small venues and promote their music through word-of-mouth and internet sites. In some cases the content of music is illegal and controversial.Shalom Sheer’s "philosophy for artists" argues that there are three common misconceptions about the "underground": that it refers exclusively to the rave/electronic scene; that it can be described with a vague, broad definition of "anything which is not mainstream"; and the myth that underground music is kept secret;he points out that no band or performer "exclude virtually anyone or anything" using "secret passwords and hidden map points".Even some musical styles that eventually became mainstream, commercialized pop styles started out as underground music. Late 1970s disco is often considered to be a much commercialized type of pop music. However, before discos mainstream adoption in 1977 and 1978, disco records were underground music created by nightclub DJs for the gay dance club scene. Similarly, hip hop began "on the streets"; in the early 1980s, rappers did beat boxing and made up rhymes for tiny underground labels. Genres such as new wave, alternative rock, grunge, various forms of heavy metal, grind core, electronic, outsider music, and experimental music, also trace their roots to underground scenes.