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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813768403321

Autore

Chapman Ian <1960->

Titolo

Experiencing David Bowie : a listener's companion / / Ian Chapman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-3752-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Listener's Companion

Disciplina

782.42166092

Soggetti

Rock music - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Introduction; 1 Rock and Role; 2 The Actor Emerges; 3 Musical Beginnings; 4 Messages from Ground Control; 5 Irresistible Decadence; 6 Plastic Soul and the Birth of the European Canon; 7 The Sounds of Europe; 8 The Rise and Fall of David Bowie; 9 Rediscovering the Alien; 10 Twenty-First-Century Man; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Reading; Selected Listening; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>In </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion</span><span>, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music. </span></span>