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My progress on Kurt Cobain as a Cultural Symbol of Generation X

My topic has been changed All along according to The technical word is too broad and too subjective

1st Developed from Grunge band : Nirvana as a Postmodern Religion

to the 2nd Grunge Band: Nirvana as Subjective Religion: a Solitary Retreat

Lastly my title is…

Kurt Cobain as a Cultural Symbol of Generation X • To To start start with, with, II need need to to give give some some The The Overview Overview of of Cobain Cobain and and his his Generation Generation

• Young Cobain led a difficult childhood, shuffling between his divorced parents and often getting bullied in school. • • To escape his small town, he’d take off to nearby Seattle to catch local punk rock shows. Hanging out with sludge band The Melvins, Cobain met Krist Novoselic and decided to form a band, settling on drummer Dave Grohl for their next album, Nevermind.

People flocked to their intense live shows to watch Cobain sing of his personal demons like a man possessed. Suddenly, angst meant flannel shirts and ripped jeans and that the bands you idolised dressed and acted no different from the struggling teen on the streets.

And generation X is ... • In the U.S. Generation X was originally referred to as the "baby bust" generation because of the drop in the birth rate following the baby boom. • extending from the mid-1960s to late 1970s • This generation saw the inception of the home computer, the rise of videogames, and the Internet as a tool for social and commercial purposes. Dot-com businesses, MTV, Desert Storm, Grunge music, Hip hop culture and AIDS

There There were were many many traumatic traumatic events events in in this this Generation Generation X X

• Scientific knowledge is not the triumph of humanity; it’s the real hell on earth. • The upbringing of scientific knowledge with the spearhead of this age, Albert Einstein, the genius scientist, in reality, atomic bomb consumed lives of massive people.

• The end of Vietnam war • The fall of Berlin wall according to this, many people asking questions about life’s meaning which refered to the existential crisis and the nihilism

My thesis statement is Despite,Kurt Cobain, the founder of Nirvana, the grunge band, may be seen as the tragic symbol of nihilism of his generation, in fact, he is music creator according to his poetry and music competence who may help people of his generation bear with existential crisis. •

the reasons for choosing this topic are • KURT COBAIN AND HIS MUSIC is so vast, ONCE he IS REGARDE AS A SPOKESMAN OF HIS GENERATION, because his music can extract the angst with existential crisis of his generation. • Moreover, the angst with nihilist society, Cobain can express his desperate angst via his music sharing and connecting his generation with the same disturbing problem

What I need to study more …. • The existentialism and nihilism – the philosophy of gen X • Some short famous phrases of the philosophy • No more wikipedia • To make my report valid, the sources must be realiable and well-known • Do more research about his music to explore the word choices and the use of switching sounds