David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (33 1/3, 143)
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David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (33 1/3, 143)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2020
- ISBN
- 9781501336584
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1501336584
ISBN-13
9781501336584
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038580112
Product Key Features
Book Title
David Bowie's Diamond Dogs
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
History & Criticism, Composers & Musicians, Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & Styles / Rock
Genre
Music, Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
33 1/3 Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
5.7 Oz
Item Length
6.5 in
Item Width
4.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-040272
Reviews
[Hendler's] textual analysis of Bowie's lyrics and the influences of the album is deep, yet he doesn't skimp on musicology ... This 33 1/3 is worth reading even if you know nothing about Diamond Dogs., This latest volume of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series sees US academic Glenn Hendler manfully take a crack at forensically unpacking the disparate ingredients of Bowie's greatest future dystopia Diamond Dogs and passing with flying colours.
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
143
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092
Table Of Content
Track Listing Acknowledgments 1. This Is Not America 2. Who Can You Be Now? 3. 1984 in 1974 4. Mr. Burroughs Goes to Hunger City 5. Boys and Things 6. Rough Trade 7. Futures 8. This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll 9. Repetition I 10. Repetition II 11. Wild Mutations 12 Everybody Wants to Be a Fascist 13. After the Human 14. It's No Game
Synopsis
After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic "Hunger City" populated by post-human "mutants." Diamond Dogs includes the great glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" and utterly unique songs that combine lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching, grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic lyrics that reflect the album's origins in a projected Broadway musical version of Orwell's 1984 and Bowie's formative encounter with William S. Burroughs. In this book Glenn Hendler shows that each song on Diamond Dogs shifts the ground under you as you listen, not just by changing in musical style, but by being sung by a different "I" who directly addresses a different "you." Diamond Dogs is the product of a performer at the peak of his powers but uncomfortable with the rock star role he had constructed. All of the album's influences looked to Bowie like ways of escaping not just the Ziggy role, but also the constraints of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality. These are just some of the reasons many Bowie fans rate Diamond Dogs his richest and most important album of the 1970s., After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalytic "Hunger City" populated by post-human "mutants." Diamond Dogs includes the great glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" as well a variety of other songs such as one of Bowie's best piano ballads, a Moog-centered tune that sounds like Emerson Lake and Palmer, and a cool funk groove. But it also contains grinding discordant guitar experimentation, a noise collage, a weird repetitive chant, and utterly unique songs that combine lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching, grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic lyrics that reflect the album's origin as a projected Broadway musical version of Orwell's 1984 . In this book Glenn Hendler shows that Diamond Dogs was an experiment with the intimate connection Bowie forged with his audience. Each song on Diamond Dogs shifts the ground under you as you listen, not just by changing in musical style, but by being sung by a different "I" who directly addresses a different "you." Diamond Dogs is the product of a performer at the peak of his powers but uncomfortable with the rock star role he had constructed. All of the album's influences--Orwell, Burroughs, experimental German rock, black American music, 1930s cinema, post-human dystopias, and freak shows--looked to Bowie like ways of escaping not just the Ziggy role, but also the constraints of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality. These are just some of the reasons many Bowie fans rate Diamond Dogs his richest and most important album of the 1970s.
LC Classification Number
ML420.B754H43 2020
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