• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.4212-4217
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• 2013

Since genre of popular music began to classified, Alternative Music has been music form with most complex and diverse sub genre. This paper focused on mostly Alternative Rock, which began to attract attention since the 1990's, and analysed the cause for ambiguity of this genre. Therefore we can examine the inevitable limitation of traditional - based on musical form only - classification.