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...The interstellar oeuvre of David Bowie used literal and aural metaphor to develop a rabid fan base who read themes of alienation and identity freedom into his music. Bowie was born in 1947 in London, and his vocal talents were first...

Confronting Bowie’s Mysterious Corpses

Tanja Stark

Tanja Stark

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Enchanting David Bowie : Space/Time/Body/Memory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Introduction ‘Confront a corpse at least once’ Bowie implored, ‘. . . the absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have’ (Bowie, 2004). His words accompanied a haunting photographic...

Music for Cyborgs: Fictions of Disability

Shelton Waldrep

Shelton Waldrep is Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine, USA, and currently the Trustee Professor of the University of Maine System. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Future Nostalgia : Performing David Bowie

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...After the surprise release of his new album The Next Day in 2013, David Bowie was in the news again a few months later, this time for releasing a list of his 100 essential novels. See, for example, “Bowie’s Top 100 Books...

David Bowie is . . . Customizing

Helene Marie Thian

Helene Marie Thian

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Enchanting David Bowie : Space/Time/Body/Memory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Utilizing Jules Prown’s methodology as outlined in Interpreting Objects and Collections (Pearce, 1994), this chapter undertakes a materialist analysis of David Bowie’s jacket first worn as stage attire around the age of fifteen while...

He’s not there: Velvet Goldmine filmhauntological approachVelvet Goldmine and the Spectres of David Bowie

Glenn D’Cruz

Glenn D’Cruz

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Enchanting David Bowie : Space/Time/Body/Memory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Introduction Named after a relatively obscure David Bowie outtake, Velvet Goldmine is an audacious film, which divided critics and audiences alike. Inspired by David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust period, the film, on a literal level, provides...

Buddhism and Popular Music

Cupchik Jeffrey W.

Cupchik Jeffrey W.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Introduction The global popularity of Buddhism as a fount of meditation and health has been increasing noticeably since the 1950s (Seager 2000: 4), and this trend is evidenced particularly in the work of music recording artists. Primarily,...

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

Amedeo D’Adamo

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Enchanting David Bowie : Space/Time/Body/Memory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Introduction In this chapter I focus on one song among all of David Bowie’s music that is singularly – and idiosyncratically – both political and emotional; his hit ‘Young Americans’, written in 1974 and released on the album of the same...

Between Sound and Vision: senseand Low albumspacebetween sense-worldssound/music, and visionminortarianflâneurLow and Sense

Dene October

Dene October

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Enchanting David Bowie : Space/Time/Body/Memory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Introduction: ‘Don’t you w[o]ander sometimes’ On his Low (1977) profile, where the celluloid Bowie has been flattened out by George Underwood’s cover art, only his ear seems to have corporeal depth, alert and cocked to one side, an emblem...

Desperately Seeking Bowie: How Berlin Bowie Tourism Transcends the Sacred

Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

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John Charles Sparrowhawk

John Charles Sparrowhawk

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Enchanting David Bowie : Space/Time/Body/Memory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Introduction In this chapter we broadly explore the relationship between celebrity and landscape, how it was that David Bowie came to live in Berlin in the 70s and the subsequent cultural impact of his arrival and stay both then and now...

The Eyes of David Bowie

Kevin J. Hunt

Kevin J. Hunt

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Enchanting David Bowie : Space/Time/Body/Memory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Introduction: David Bowie is . . . watching you During the display period of ‘David Bowie is’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum (23 March – 11 August 2013) a common sight around London was the ‘David Bowie is here’ poster, announcing...