Brooker Will Why Bowie Matters 9780008313722

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Автор: Brooker Will
Название: Why Bowie Matters
ISBN: 9780008313722
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Классификация:

Музыка

Рок и поп-музыка

Биографии: общее жизнеописание

Биографии деятелей искусств и развлечений

ISBN-10: 0008313725
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 240
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 14.11.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 136 x 205 x 27
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: Англии
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A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his lifes work and journey, and why he will always matter.

When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the whole world was united in mourning. His greatest hits were sung tearfully in pubs up and down Britain, garlands of flowers were left at the Aladdin Sane mural in his old stomping ground of Brixton and tributes poured in from a galaxy of stars. To many of us, Bowie was so much more than a pop idol. But why?

In Why Bowie Matters, Professor Will Brooker answers that question persuasively, as both a fan and an academic. A Bowie obsessive since childhood, he hit the headlines over the course of a year-long immersive research project that took him from London to Berlin and New York, following in Bowies footsteps, only listening to music and reading books he loved, and even at times adopting his fashion.

In this original and illuminating book, Professor Brooker approaches Bowie from various angles, re-tracing his childhood on the streets of Bromley, taking us through his record collection and bookshelves, and deciphering the symbols and codes of his final work, Blackstar to piece together how an ordinary suburban teenager turned himself into a legend, and how perhaps we too could be a little more Bowie.

He shows us that while David Robert Jones died on that terrible day in January, David Bowie will live on forever.

Why Bowie Matters, Brooker Will