Shock and Awe

Informationen zum Autor Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture ! Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock ! The Sex Revolts: Gender! Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press)! Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984! Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock and Retromania . Klappentext The first complete history of Glam Rock by one of the finest music writers of his generation. This is the exploration of the most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. The author of bestseller "Rip It Up and Start Again" charts the retro future sounds and outrageous styles bringing it right up-to-date with the aftershocks of David Bowie's death. A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2017 The first complete epic history of Glam Rock from '68-'76 by the finest music writer of his generation, Simon Reynolds. Zusammenfassung As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! The author explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. He charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies.

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A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016
LONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2017

The first complete epic history of Glam Rock from '68-'76 by the finest music writer of his generation, Simon Reynolds.

Autorentext
Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock and Retromania.

Klappentext

The first complete history of Glam Rock by one of the finest music writers of his generation. This is the exploration of the most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. The author of bestseller "Rip It Up and Start Again" charts the retro future sounds and outrageous styles bringing it right up-to-date with the aftershocks of David Bowie's death.

Zusammenfassung
As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! The author explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. He charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies.