From the acclaimed author of Rip It Upand Start Again and Retromania--"the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)--comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop.
Spearheaded by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, and Roxy Music, glam rock reveled in artifice and spectacle. Reacting against the hairy, denim-clad rock bands of the late Sixties, glam was the first true teenage rampage of the new decade. In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds takes you on a wild cultural tour through the early Seventies, a period packed with glitzy costumes and alien make-up, thrilling music and larger-than-life personas.
Shock and Awe offers a fresh, in-depth look at the glam and glitter phenomenon, placing it the wider Seventies context of social upheaval and political disillusion. It explores how artists like Lou Reed, New York Dolls, and Queen broke with the hippie generation, celebrating illusion and artifice over truth and authenticity. Probing the genre's major themes--stardom, androgyny, image, decadence, fandom, apocalypse--Reynolds tracks glam's legacy as it unfolded in subsequent decades, from Eighties art-pop icons like Kate Bush through to twenty-first century idols of outrage such as Lady Gaga. Shock and Awe shows how the original glam artists' obsessions with fame, extreme fashion, and theatrical excess continue to reverberate through contemporary pop culture.
Автор: Heatley Michael Название: Seventies Remembered ISBN: 1782812865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782812869 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 27570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Although he remains nameless, Fenman, the man from the Wolds, has kindly shared the benefit of his lifetime backing horses with Racing Ahead readers. Fenman himself is proud to say that he writes as he speaks - and this book is peppered with many insights that may not seem at first reading to be about racing at all. But every one is a little lesson in itself and you never end a Fenman article without having learned something. In this book, we have brought together all Fenman's articles in one place and have included a handy index of his many methods at the back. These methods have proven themselves by turning in a profit over many decades, so just one of those methods justifies the purchase of this book alone which is sure to give many hours' pleasure to anyone who loves racing.
Автор: Wills David, Schmidt Stephen Название: Seventies Glamour ISBN: 0062265563 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062265562 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 27870.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Glamour and grotesquerie; disco and punk; high fashion and low-life passion: the most conflicted and controversial decade in pop culture history blazes back to life in a gloriously decadent collection of images from the runway and the silver screen, the concert stage and the nightclub dance floor.
The 1970s was an era when the glitter of old Hollywood was eclipsed by a gritty new sensibility--a time when legends like Elizabeth Taylor and Liza Minnelli mixed with rising stars from the worlds of punk rock, underground film, fashion, and art. Cutting the deck of glamour with a heady dose of hedonism, sex and violence, the stars of the Seventies--including David Bowie, Debbie Harry, Candy Darling and Sid Vicious--rejected stage-managed images in favor of experiment and self-determination.
In Seventies Glamour, the acclaimed Hollywood photo historian David Wills (Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis; Audrey: The 60s) showcases the freewheeling, explosive parade that was the 1970s, highlighting its aesthetic of liberation, sexual freedom and defiant indulgence. Gorgeously reproduced, wittily curated, the photos in Seventies Glamour are as diverse as the decade they celebrate. From Halston posing with his Halstonettes and Divine making the scene at Xenon, to Elton John in his plumed excess, and Diane von F rstenberg wrapped around the Empire State Building, all the exuberance is captured by the superstar photographers of the decade, including Francesco Scavullo, Helmut Newton, Chris von Wangenheim, Michael Childers, Antonio Lopez, Norman Parkinson, Rebecca Blake, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Terence Donovan, Jack Mitchell, Ara Gallant, Anton Perich, Lynn Goldsmith, Brian Aris, Harry Langdon and many more.
A full-length gallery as exotic and dazzling as the decade itself, Seventies Glamour illuminates a time when defying expectations became the quintessence of style.
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