David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (33 1/3, 143) - Paperback
David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (33 1/3, 143)
Author: Hendler, Glenn
Publication Date: 03/05/2020
Format: Paperback
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After his breakthrough withĀ Ziggy StardustĀ and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic "Hunger City" populated by post-human "mutants."Ā Diamond DogsĀ includes the great glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" and utterly unique songs that combine lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching, grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic lyrics that reflect the album's origins in a projected Broadway musical version of Orwell'sĀ 1984Ā and Bowie's formative encounter with William S. Burroughs.
In this book Glenn Hendler shows that each song onĀ Diamond DogsĀ shifts the ground under you as you listen, not just by changing in musical style, but by being sung by a different "I" who directly addresses a different "you."Ā Diamond DogsĀ is the product of a performer at the peak of his powers but uncomfortable with the rock star role he had constructed. All of the album's influences looked to Bowie like ways of escaping not just the Ziggy role, but also the constraints of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality. These are just some of the reasons many Bowie fans rateĀ Diamond DogsĀ his richest and most important album of the 1970s.
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Glenn HendlerĀ is Professor of English and American Studies at Fordham University, USA, where he teaches courses in US literature and culture, sound studies, and cultural theory. He writes on popular and unpopular literature in the 19th century, film, television, and contemporary cultural politics. He is author or editor of several books, includingĀ Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureĀ (2001) andĀ Keywords for American Cultural StudiesĀ (2007).
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David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (33 1/3, 143) - Paperback
David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (33 1/3, 143)
Author: Hendler, Glenn
Publication Date: 03/05/2020
Format: Paperback
Ā
After his breakthrough withĀ Ziggy StardustĀ and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic "Hunger City" populated by post-human "mutants."Ā Diamond DogsĀ includes the great glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" and utterly unique songs that combine lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching, grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic lyrics that reflect the album's origins in a projected Broadway musical version of Orwell'sĀ 1984Ā and Bowie's formative encounter with William S. Burroughs.
In this book Glenn Hendler shows that each song onĀ Diamond DogsĀ shifts the ground under you as you listen, not just by changing in musical style, but by being sung by a different "I" who directly addresses a different "you."Ā Diamond DogsĀ is the product of a performer at the peak of his powers but uncomfortable with the rock star role he had constructed. All of the album's influences looked to Bowie like ways of escaping not just the Ziggy role, but also the constraints of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality. These are just some of the reasons many Bowie fans rateĀ Diamond DogsĀ his richest and most important album of the 1970s.
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Glenn HendlerĀ is Professor of English and American Studies at Fordham University, USA, where he teaches courses in US literature and culture, sound studies, and cultural theory. He writes on popular and unpopular literature in the 19th century, film, television, and contemporary cultural politics. He is author or editor of several books, includingĀ Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureĀ (2001) andĀ Keywords for American Cultural StudiesĀ (2007).
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David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (33 1/3, 143)
Author: Hendler, Glenn
Publication Date: 03/05/2020
Format: Paperback
Ā
After his breakthrough withĀ Ziggy StardustĀ and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic "Hunger City" populated by post-human "mutants."Ā Diamond DogsĀ includes the great glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" and utterly unique songs that combine lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching, grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic lyrics that reflect the album's origins in a projected Broadway musical version of Orwell'sĀ 1984Ā and Bowie's formative encounter with William S. Burroughs.
In this book Glenn Hendler shows that each song onĀ Diamond DogsĀ shifts the ground under you as you listen, not just by changing in musical style, but by being sung by a different "I" who directly addresses a different "you."Ā Diamond DogsĀ is the product of a performer at the peak of his powers but uncomfortable with the rock star role he had constructed. All of the album's influences looked to Bowie like ways of escaping not just the Ziggy role, but also the constraints of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality. These are just some of the reasons many Bowie fans rateĀ Diamond DogsĀ his richest and most important album of the 1970s.
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Glenn HendlerĀ is Professor of English and American Studies at Fordham University, USA, where he teaches courses in US literature and culture, sound studies, and cultural theory. He writes on popular and unpopular literature in the 19th century, film, television, and contemporary cultural politics. He is author or editor of several books, includingĀ Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureĀ (2001) andĀ Keywords for American Cultural StudiesĀ (2007).
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