Future Nostalgia: Performing David Bowie

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Acknowledgements List of Figures Chapter One
Introduction The Pastiche of Gender Chapter Two The Persistence of the Dandy:Subcultures and Resistance Chapter Three Avatars of the Future:Structuring Music Chapter Four The Grain of the Voice:Autobiography and Multiplicity Chapter Five The Lost Decade:R
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Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a "leper messiah," a more appropriate moniker might be "rock god": someone whose influence has crossed numerous sub-genres of popular and classical music and can at times seem ubiquitous. By looking at key moments in his career (1972, 1977-79, 1980-83, and 1995-97) through several lenses—theories of sub-culture, gender/sexuality studies, theories of sound, post-colonial theory, and performance studies Waldrep examines Bowie's work in terms not only of his auditory output but his many reinterpretations of it via music videos, concert tours, television appearances, and occasional movie roles. Future Nostalgia looks at all aspects of Bowie's career in an attempt to trace Bowie's contribution to the performative paradigms that constitute contemporary rock music.

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If you have an interest or even a love for the significance of David Bowie and how he shaped our collective appreciation for all things that define the art world, this book should attract your attention...An essential study of one of recent history's most remarkable renaissance men

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