Global Glam and Popular Music: Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s

ISBN-13: 9780367871222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 300 str.

Ian Chapman; Henry Johnson

Opis

This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from a global perspective. Approaching glam music performance and style broadly, and using the glam/glitter rock genre of the early 1970s as a foundation, it engages with glam in its many manifestations and contexts. Glam exists at the intersections of glam r

Spis treści

List of Figures Introduction Ian Chapman and Henry Johnson PART I. Britain from the Early 1970s 1. "All that Glitters": Glam, Bricolage, and the History of Post-war Youth Culture Christine Feldman-Barrett and Andy Bennett 2. "Cosmic Dancer": Marc Bolan’s Otherworldly Persona Alison Blair 3. David Bowie and the Art of Performance Shelton Waldrep 4. Gus Dudgeon’s Super Sonic Signature Sam Bennett 5. Roxy Musicology: The Substance of Style Jon Fitzgerald and Philip Hayward 6. No Escape from Reality: The Postcolonial Glam of Freddie Mercury Nancy L. Stockdale 7. Glam Britannia: The Intersection of Glam and Britpop Amanda Mills PART II. Europe and North America 8. Alice Cooper: Glam Rock’s Problem Child Ian Chapman 9. KISS, Glam Performance, and the Incarnation of Superheroes Lee Chambers and Robert G. Weiner 10. All Those Wasted Years: Hanoi Rocks and the Transitions of Glam Brad Klypchak 11. Naughty Women vs. Macho Men: Glam-punk and Homophobia in Southern California in the late 1970s Jay Keister 12. When Hip Hop Met Glam: The Disidentifications of Mykki Blanco Giuseppe Zevolli 13. Twenty-First-Century Girl: Lady Gaga, Performance Art, and Glam Philip Auslander PART III. Global Perspectives 14. "Visual-kei": Glamour in Japanese Pop Music Henry Johnson and Akitsugu Kawamoto 15. Toward a Gendered Aesthetics of K-Pop Timothy Laurie 16. Southeast Asian Glamour: The Strange Case of Rock Kapak in Malaysia Marco Ferrarese 17. Tropical Glam: The Libertarian Glitter Scene in Brazil Fabiana Caso and Renata Aquino Ribeiro 18. Drongoes in the Dress-up Box: Glam Rock in Australia Paul "Nazz" Oldham 19. Spotting the Rare Sequinned Kiwi: Three Approaches to Glam Rock in 1970s New Zealand Ian Chapman Contributors Index

O autorze

Ian Chapman is Senior Executant Lecturer in Contemporary Music at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Henry Johnson is Professor of Music at the University of Otago, New Zealand.