Future nostalgia : performing David Bowie / Shelton Waldrep.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldrep, Shelton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bowie, David--Criticism and interpretation.

Bowie, David.

Rock music--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204) and index.

ISBN:

9781501314186

1501314181

9781623566791

1623566797

OCLC:

921846580