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Glam Rock
eBook - Music in Sound and Vision, Tempo: A Rowman & Littlefield Music Series on Rock, Pop, and Culture
ISBN/EAN: 9781442271487
Umbreit-Nr.: 989695
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 236 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 15.10.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span>Until recently, glam rock has been a mere footnote in popular music history: a style-over-substance lark in an otherwise serious industry.</span><span>Glam Rock: Music in Sound and Vision</span><span>reveals the true story of how glam carved out a place as a diverse musical style and how it related to the artistic, political, economic, emotional, sexual, and commercial scenes of the late twentieth century. Committed to spectacle but also to musical ingenuity, glam delivered an exhilarating burst of color that offered a joyful reboot for pop culturea total blam blam!</span><br><br><br><br><span>Glam swept through Britain to North America in the early 1970s with the foundational stardom of T Rex and David Bowie, offering an alternative to the established rock and pop styles that had started to bore a segment of young listeners. As Alice Cooper and KISS filled concert arenas, British acts as diverse as the Rolling Stones, Elton John, and Queen consciously adopted glams flair for drama. Refreshing and reinvigorating, glam influenced later musical movements and moments from glitterfunk to punk, from new wave to new romanticism, and from hair metal to the synth-pop of self-conscious changelings like Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga.</span><br><br><br><br><span>In Simon Philos engaging history, glam finally gets the spotlight it deserves. As an essential force in the history of popular music, glam offers a prism through which to explore 70s pop culture in all its glitter and charm.</span>
- Kurztext
- <span>Glam Rock </span> <span>investigates the origins, development, and impact of an often under-valued and misunderstood musical genre. Exploring artistic, political, psychological, sexual, and commercial contexts, this book brings a fresh perspective to the transatlantic cultural history of this unique movement in popular music.</span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span>Simon Philo</span><span>is head of Liberal Arts and American Studies at the University of Derby. He is the author of</span><span>British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence</span><span>in the Tempo Series and has published extensively on transatlantic popular culture. For more than twenty years at Derby, he has been instrumental in working popular music studies into the very heart of the curriculum. In addition to teaching the intermediate class Audible Republic: American Music and Society, he delivers sessions on music and protest, gospel, soul and civil rights, punk, and Brit pop. A true child of the revolution, the first single he bought was Sweets Teenage Rampage.</span>