Download e-book for kindle: Global Glam and Popular Music: Style and Spectacle from the by Ian Chapman,Henry Johnson

This e-book is the 1st to discover sort and spectacle in glam renowned song functionality from the Nineteen Seventies to the current day, and from a global standpoint. concentration is given to a few consultant artists, bands, and events, in addition to nationwide, local, and cultural contexts from world wide. impending glam track functionality and magnificence generally, and utilizing the glam/glitter rock style of the early Nineteen Seventies as a beginning for case reviews and comparisons, the quantity engages with topics that assist in defining the glam phenomenon in its many manifestations and contexts. Glam rock, in its unique, term-defining inception, had its beginning within the united kingdom in 1970/71, and featured at its leading edge acts akin to David Bowie, T. Rex, Slade, and Roxy tune. Termed "glitter rock" within the US, stateside artists incorporated Alice Cooper, Suzi Quatro, the recent York Dolls, and Kiss. In a world context, glam is represented in lots of different cultures, the place the impacts of early glam rock will be obvious essentially. during this ebook, glam exists on the intersections of glam rock and different types (e.g., punk, steel, disco, goth). Its performers are characterised by means of their flamboyant and theatrical visual appeal (clothes, costumes, make-up, hairstyles), they typically problem gender stereotypes and sexuality (androgyny), and so they create spectacle in well known tune functionality, fandom, and style. The essays during this assortment contain theoretically-informed contributions that handle the variety of the world’s well known track through artists, bands, and pursuits, with distinctive cognizance given to the methods glam has been influential not just as a tune style, but in addition in model, layout, and different visible tradition.