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SHOCK AND AWE
Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century
SHOCK AND AWE is the definitive cultural history of glam rock celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars 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.
Simon Reynolds takes the reader 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, Sparks 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 21st 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.
Simon Reynolds is the author of several books on music and pop culture, including THE SEX REVOLTS: Gender, Rebellion and Rock n Roll, ENERGY FLASH, RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN: Post Punk 1978 1984, BRING THE NOISE: 20 years of writing about hip rock and hip hop, and RETROMANIA: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past.
GLAM
Glitter Rock und Art Pop
von den Siebzigern bis ins 21. Jahrhundert
Deutsch von Jan-Niklas Jaeger
PB Ventil 12/17
Simon Reynolds takes the reader 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, Sparks 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 21st 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.
Simon Reynolds is the author of several books on music and pop culture, including THE SEX REVOLTS: Gender, Rebellion and Rock n Roll, ENERGY FLASH, RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN: Post Punk 1978 1984, BRING THE NOISE: 20 years of writing about hip rock and hip hop, and RETROMANIA: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past.
GLAM
Glitter Rock und Art Pop
von den Siebzigern bis ins 21. Jahrhundert
Deutsch von Jan-Niklas Jaeger
PB Ventil 12/17
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Published 2016-10-01 by Faber and Faber |