Shock and Awe - Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century - E-book - ePub

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Simon Reynolds - Shock and Awe - Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century.
NPR Great Read of 2016From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania-"the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary... Lire la suite
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NPR Great Read of 2016From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania-"the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)-comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop. Spearheaded by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T.
Rex, and Roxy Music, glam rock reveled in artifice and spectacle. Reacting against the hairy, denim-clad rock bands of the late Sixties, glam was the first true teenage rampage of the new decade. In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds takes you on a wild cultural tour through the early Seventies, a period packed with glitzy costumes and alien make-up, thrilling music and larger-than-life personas. Shock and Awe offers a fresh, in-depth look at the glam and glitter phenomenon, placing it the wider Seventies context of social upheaval and political disillusion.
It explores how artists like Lou Reed, New York Dolls, and Queen broke with the hippie generation, celebrating illusion and artifice over truth and authenticity. Probing the genre's major themes-stardom, androgyny, image, decadence, fandom, apocalypse-Reynolds tracks glam's legacy as it unfolded in subsequent decades, from Eighties art-pop icons like Kate Bush through to twenty-first century idols of outrage such as Lady Gaga.
Shock and Awe shows how the original glam artists' obsessions with fame, extreme fashion, and theatrical excess continue to reverberate through contemporary pop culture.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    11/10/2016
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-0-06-227981-1
  • EAN
    9780062279811
  • Format
    ePub
  • Nb. de pages
    704 pages
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Pages
      704
    • Protection num.
      Contenu protégé

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Biographie de Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds started his journalistic career in 1986 as a staff writer for the British weekly music paper Melody Maker. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Spin, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Artforum, The Wire, The Guardian, Slate, Frieze and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of four books and five collections of essays and interviews. His books have been translated into ten languages.  Born in London, he now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.

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