Enchanting David Bowie
Subtitle: space/time/body/memory
By: edited by Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore and Sean Redmond
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781628923032; 9781628923049
Subjects: Rock music; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation
Description: A longstanding, successful and frequently controversial career spanning more than four decades establishes David Bowie as charged with contemporary cultural relevance. That David Bowie has influenced many lives is undeniable to his fans. He requisitions and challenges his audiences, through frequently indirect lyrics and images, to critically question sanity, identity and essentially what it means to be 'us' and why we are here. Enchanting David Bowie explores David Bowie as an anti-temporal figure and argues that we need to understand him across the many media platforms and art spaces he intersects with including theatre, film, television, the web, exhibition, installation, music, lyrics, video, and fashion. This exciting collection is organized according to the key themes of space, time, body, and memory - themes that literally and metaphorically address the key questions and intensities of his output
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Space.; title: Keeping space fantastic : the transformative journey of Major Tom  -- Michael Mooradian Lupro; title: Ziggy's urban alienation : assembling the heroic outsider  -- Ian Chapman; title: Desperately seeking Bowie : how Berlin Bowie tourism transcends the sacred  -- Jennifer Otter Bickerdike and John Charles Sparrowhawk; title: Confronting Bowie's mysterious corpses -- Tanja Stark; title: Time.; title: Time again : the David Bowie chronotope  -- Will Brooker; title: Bowie's covers : the artist as modernist  -- David Baker; title: Ain't there one damn flag that can make me break down and cry? The formal, performative and emotional tactics of Bowie's singular critical anthem 'Young Americans'  -- Amedeo D'Adamo; title: 2004 (Bowie vs mashup) -- Christopher Moore; title: Body.; title: The eyes of David Bowie  -- Kevin J. Hunt; title: Semantic shock : David Bowie!  -- Toija Cinque; title: The whiteness of David Bowie  -- Sean Redmond; title: David Bowie is... customizing -- Helen Marie Thian; title: Memory.; title: He's not there : Velvet goldmine and the spectres of David Bowie  -- Glenn D'Cruz; title: Between sound and vision : Low and sense  -- Dene October; title: When are we now? Walls and memory in David Bowie's Berlins  -- Tiffany Naiman; title: 'You never knew that I could do that' : Bowie, video art and the search for Potsdamer Platz -- Daryl Perrins.