Performing glam rock
Subtitle: gender and theatricality in popular music
By: Philip Auslander.
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press; University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780472098682; 9780472068685
Subjects: Rock music -- History and criticism; Rock musicians; Gender identity in music
Description: This text situates the glam rock phenomenon historically and examines it as a set of performance strategies. It explores the ways in which glam rock, while celebrating the showmanship of 1950s rock and roll, began to undermine rock's adherence to the ideology of authenticity in the late 1960s.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : personal and disciplinary reflections; title: Glamticipations : rock faces the 1970s; title: Glamography : the rise of glam rock; title: King of the highway, queen of the hop : Marc Bolan and the evolution of glam style; title: Who can I be now? David Bowie and the theatricalization of rock; title: Inauthentic voices : gender bending and genre blending with Bryan Ferry and Roy Wood; title: Suzi Quatro wants to be your man : female masculinity in glam rock; title: Conclusion, glamology : glam rock and the politics of identity.