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The twisted tale of glam rock / Stuart Lenig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lenig, Stuart.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Glam rock music--History and criticism.
- Glam rock music.
- Glam rock musicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara : Praeger, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The very qualities that made glam unusual and undervalued are now being reintroduced into our culture through video, music, and cyber and computer mediums, while artists such as Lady Gaga have made glam popular once more. Carefully explaining this misunderstood genre, The Twisted Tale of Glam Rock explores glam's attraction and the reasons it has endured.||With the help of copious examples, the book covers the style from the pre-glam British invasion of 1964-69 through the classical glam era (1970-75); the metamorphosis into glam goth, glam metal, and glam new-romanticism (1976-90); and the st
- Contents:
- The coming of glam
- Pre-glam
- Mr. Bowie meets glam
- Roxy Music
- Glam's casualties and resurgence
- Glam in the margins
- Post-millennial glam tension.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798216028185
- 9786612959080
- 9781282959088
- 1282959085
- 9780313379871
- 0313379874
- OCLC:
- 699488910
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