Shock and Awe
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Shock and Awe

Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century

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eBook - ePub

Shock and Awe

Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century

About this book

As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Slade, Roxy Music, Iggy, Lou Reed, Be Bop Deluxe, David Essex -- all are represented here. Reynolds charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies and brings it right up to date with a final chapter on glam in hip hop, Lady Gaga, and the aftershocks of David Bowie's death.

Shock and Awe is a defining work and another classic in the Faber Social rock n roll canon to stand alongside Rip it Up, Electric Eden and Yeah Yeah Yeah.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9780571301737

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Introduction
  9. 1: Boogie Poet: Marc Bolan and T. Rex
  10. 2: The London Boy: Bowie’s Early Years
  11. 3: Elected: Alice Cooper and Shock Rock
  12. 4: Teenage Rampage: Glitter Stomp and Disco Rock
  13. 5: Hard to Be Real: David Bowie and Friends Conquer the World
  14. 6: What’s the Date Again? The Future-Retro Visions of Roxy Music
  15. 7: Trash City: New York Dolls and Wayne County
  16. 8: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: Fifties Flashbacks and Rock’n’Roll Replays
  17. 9: Baroque ’n’ Roll: Late Glam
  18. 10: Run to the Shadows: Bowie versus Los Angeles
  19. 11: Ultraviolence: Punk Before Punk
  20. 12: Just Another Hero: Bowie’s Berlin
  21. Aftershocks: A Partial Inventory of Glam Echoes and Reflections starring
  22. Photographs
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. About the Author
  27. Also by the Author
  28. Copyright