Shelton Waldrep

Future Nostalgia (eBook, PDF)

Performing David Bowie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a "leper messiah," a more appropriate moniker might be "rock god": someone whose influence has crossed numerous sub-genres of popular and classical music and can at times seem ubiquitous. By looking at key moments in his career (1972, 1977-79, 1980-83, and 1995-97) through several lenses-theories of sub-culture, gender/sexuality studies, theories of sound, post-colonial theory, and performance studies Waldrep examines Bowie's work in terms not only of his auditory output but his many reinterpretations of it via music videos, concert tours, television appearances, and occasional movie roles. Future Nostalgia looks at all aspects of Bowie's career in an attempt to trace Bowie's contribution to the performative paradigms that constitute contemporary rock music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781623566791
• Artikelnr.: 48421657

Autorenporträt

Shelton Waldrep is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine, USA. He is the author of The Dissolution of Place: Architecture, Identity, and the Body (2013) and The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie (2004), the co-author of Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World (1995), and the editor of The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Figures Chapter One Introduction:The Pastiche of
Gender Chapter Two The Persistence of the Dandy:Subcultures and Resistance
Chapter Three Avatars of the Future:Structuring Music Chapter Four The
Grain of the Voice:Autobiography and Multiplicity Chapter Five The Lost
Decade:Reconsidering the 1980s Chapter Six Music for Cyborgs:Fictions of
Disability General Bibliography Index