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David Bowie Critical Perspectives: Routledge studied in popular music

 Author: Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane & Martin Power  Category: Biography, Discography, Psycholigist  Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd  Published: December 12, 2016  ISBN-13: 9781138631205  Pages: 324  Language: English  Dimension: 22,9 x 15,2 x 2,8 cm More Details
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Book Description

David Bowie: Critical Perspectives examines in detail the many layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in popular culture. This interdisciplinary book brings together established and emerging scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including musicology, sociology, art history, literary theory, philosophy, politics, film studies and media studies. Bowie’s complexity as a singer, songwriter, producer, performer, actor and artist demands that any critical engagement with his overall work must be interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in its scope. The chapters are organised around the key themes of β€˜textualities’, β€˜psychologies’, β€˜orientalisms’, β€˜art and agency’ and β€˜performing and influencing’ in Bowie’s work. This comprehensive book contributes a great deal to the study of popular music, performance, gender, religion, popular media and celebrity.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Where Are We Now? Contemporary Scholarship on David Bowie Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane and Martin J. PowerΒ  Part 1: AssemblagesΒ  1. David Bowie is. Kathryn JohnsonΒ  2.Β In this Age of Grand Allusion: Bowie, Nihilism, and Meaning Richard FitchΒ  3. Culminating Sounds and (En)visions: A Critical Reading of Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes.” Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane, and Martin J. PowerΒ  Part 2: SubjectivitiesΒ  4. Turn Myself to Face Me: David Bowie in the 1990s and the Discovery of the Authentic Self Β Bethany Usher and Stephanie FremauxΒ  5. β€˜Crashing Out with Sylvian’: David Bowie, Carl Jung and the Unconscious Tanja StarkΒ  6. Dear Dr. Freud: David Bowie Hits the Couch (A Psychoanalytical Approach) Ana LeoneΒ  Part 3: OrientalismsΒ  7. Moss Garden: David Bowie and Japonism in Fashion in the 1970s Helene ThianΒ  8. Reconsidering Bowie in the 1980s: The Case for China Girl Shelton WaldrepΒ  9.Embodying Stardom, Representing Otherness: David Bowie in β€˜Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’ Mehdi DerfoufiΒ  Part 4: AgenciesΒ  10. Art’s Filthy Lesson Tiffany NaimanΒ  11. Authorship, Agency, and Visual Analysis: Reading (some) Bowie Album Covers Ian ChapmanΒ  12. Revisiting Bowie’s Berlin David BuckleyΒ  Part 5: AlteritiesΒ  13. David Bowie: The Extraordinary Rock Star as Film Star Julie LobalzoWrightΒ  14. The (becoming-wo)Man Who Fell to Earth Dene OctoberΒ  15. Out of this World: Ziggy Stardust and the Spatial Interplay of Lyrics, Vocals, and Performance Barish Ali and Heidi WallaceΒ  Part 6: AffinitiesΒ  16. David Bowie Now and Then: Questions of Fandom and Late Style Nick StevensonΒ  17. How Superficial!: David Bowie and the Art of Surfacing in 21st Century Literature Vanessa Garcia

 

Editor(s)

Biography

Eoin Devereux is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Limerick, Ireland. γ€€He is also an Adjunct Professor in Contemporary Culture at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. γ€€He is the author of Understanding the Media (3rdγ€€edition, 2014) and editor of Media Studies: Key Issues and Debates (2007).

Aileen Dillane is an ethnomusicologist based in the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She co-edited Morrissey: Fandom, Representations and Identities (2011) with Eoin Devereux and Martin Power. Her areas of research interest include ethnomusicological theory and practice, popular music and culture studies, performance studies and urban soundscape studies.

Martin Power is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Recent publications include Morrissey: Fandom, Representations and Identities(2011, co-edited with Eoin Devereux and Aileen Dillane) and Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society (2011, co-edited with Micheal O’Flynn, Odette Clarke and Paul M. Hayes).

 

Reviews

“An interdisciplinary account of David Bowie’s career at its best. This is a refreshing andγ€€insightful collection of essays that addresses the phenomenon of an artist who changed the direction of pop music forever. It is crammed with fascinating perspectives that raise the curtain on Bowie’s performance antics and sheer force of creativity”. – Professor Stan Hawkins, University of Oslo.

‘Remarkably interesting’ – Andrew Griffin, Red Dirt Report

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