Bowie / Critchley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Critchley, Simon, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bowie, David--Criticism and interpretation.

Bowie, David.

Music and philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; London, [England] : OR Books, [2016]

Summary:

Simon Critchley first encountered David Bowie in the early seventies, when the singer appeared on Britain's most-watched music show, Top of the Pops. His performance of "Starman" mesmerized Critchley: it was "so sexual, so knowing, so strange." Two days later Critchley's mum bought a copy of the single; she liked both the song and the performer's bright orange hair (she had previously been a hairdresser). The seed of a lifelong love affair was thus planted in the mind of her son, aged 12. In this concise and engaging excursion through the songs of one of the world's greatest pop stars, Critchley, whose writings on philosophy have garnered widespread praise, melds personal narratives of how Bowie lit up his dull life in southern England's suburbs with philosophical forays into the way concepts of authenticity and identity are turned inside out in Bowie's work. The result is nearly as provocative and mind-expanding as the artist it portrays.

Contents:

Copyright; Contents; My First Sexual Experience; Episodic Blips; The Art's Filthy Lesson; Wonderful; I Am a Heideggerian Bore; Utopian Something; A Seer Is a Liar; Hold On To Nothing; Hamlet in Space; Dystopia-Get It Here, Thing; Les Tricoteuses; The Majesty of the Absurd; Illusion to Illusion; Discipline; Disappearance; Yearning; You Say You'll Leave Me; Giving Up On Reality; Playing On God's Grave; Nothing To Fear; Sun, Rain, Fire, Me, You; Saying No But Meaning Yes; Where the Fuck Did Monday Go?; Lazarus, Newton, Gracchus; Sheila, Take A Bow; Thanks; Lyrics Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 20, 2016).

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781944869274

1944869271

OCLC:

958565727