Future Nostalgia - Performing David Bowie

Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a 'leper messiah,' a more appropriate moniker might be 'rock god': someone whose influence has crossed numerous sub-genres of popular and classical music and can at times seem ubiquitous. By looking at key moments in his career (1972, 1977-79, 1980-83, and 1995-97) through several lenses-theories of sub-culture, gender/sexuality studies, theories of sound, post-colonial theory, and performance studies Waldrep examines Bowie's work in terms not only of his auditory output but his many reinterpretations of it via music videos, concert tours, television appearances, and occasional movie roles. Future Nostalgia looks at all aspects of Bowie's career in an attempt to trace Bowie's contribution to the performative paradigms that constitute contemporary rock music.

About the author

Shelton Waldrep is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine, USA. He is the author of The Dissolution of Place: Architecture, Identity, and the Body (2013) and The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie (2004), the co-author of Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World (1995), and the editor of The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture (1999).

Product details

• Authors: Shelton Waldrep
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.2015
• EAN: 9781623566920
• ISBN: 978-1-62356-692-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Rock, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Theory of music & musicology, Pop Music, Popular Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Theory of music and musicology