Simon Reynolds: Shock and Awe
Shock and Awe
Buch
- Dey Street Books, 01/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780062279804
- Bestellnummer: 8433109
- Umfang: 712 Seiten
- Gewicht: 841 g
- Maße: 231 x 154 mm
- Stärke: 55 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.1.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
The Glitter. The THEATRICS. The EXCESS. The Music.The true story of the gender-bending artists who changed rock and roll.
Simon Reynolds has been hailed as ?the foremost popular music critic of this era? (Times Literary Supplement [UK]), ?unassailable? (New York Times), and ?the most provocative pop music writer of his generation? (Boston Globe). Now, the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania delivers the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop.
Reacting against the drab, denim-clad long-hair bands of the hippie era, glam rock was the first true teenage rampage of the Seventies. Pioneered by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, New York Dolls and Roxy Music, this new look and sound reveled in artifice and spectacle over earnestness and authenticity. In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds takes you on a deeply researched and wildly entertaining cultural tour through the glam explosion?a period defined by glitzy costumes and alien makeup, thrilling music, and larger-than-life personas.
Shock and Awe offers a fresh look at the glam phenomenon, placing it the context of the era's social upheaval and political disillusion. Probing the genre's major themes?fame, androgyny, decadence, apocalypse?Reynolds traces glam's influence as it reverberates across subsequent decades, from art-pop aesthetes like Kate Bush, Prince and Morrissey in the Eighties to contemporary pop icons such as Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé. Shock and Awe reveals how the original glam artists' obsessions and provocations continue to ripple through our culture today.
Biografie
Simon Reynolds, 1963 in London geboren, war von 1986 bis 1990 Redakteur der englischen Musikzeitschrift Melody Maker. Ein Buch mit seinen Texten aus jener Zeit erschien 1990 unter dem Titel "Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock". Seit 1994 lebt Reynolds im East Village in Manhattan. Er schreibt für Zeitungen und Zeitschriften wie New York Times, Village Voice, Spin, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Observer, Artforum, The Wire und Uncut. 1995 erschien das Buch "The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion & RocknRoll", das er zusammen mit seiner Frau Joy Press schrieb; 1998 folgte "Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture in America". Seit Ende 2002 betreibt Reynolds im Internet sein Blissblog. Simon Reynolds
Shock and Awe
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