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Author Chapman, Ian, 1960-

Title Experiencing David Bowie : a listener's companion / Ian Chapman
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 221 pages)
Series Listener's companion
Listener's companion.
Contents Rock and role : the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars, 1972 -- The actor emerges : Hunky dory, 1971 -- Musical beginnings : David Bowie, 1967 -- Messages from ground control : David Bowie (aka Space oddity) and The man who sold the world, 1969-1971 -- Irresistible decadence : Aladdin sane, Pin ups, and Diamond dogs, 1973-1974 -- Plastic soul and the birth of the European canon : Young Americans, and Station to station, 1975-1976 -- The sounds of Europe : Low, Heroes, and Lodger, 1977-1979 -- The rise and fall of David Bowie : Scary monsters (and super creeps), Let's dance, Tonight, Never let me down, Tin machine, and Tin machine II, 1980-1991 -- Rediscovering the alien : Black tie white noise, the Buddha of suburbia, Outside, Earthling, and Hours, 1993-1999 -- Twenty-first century man : Heathen, Reality, and The next day, 2003-2013
Summary In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, 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--Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-212) and index
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Subject Bowie, David -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Bowie, David fast
Subject Rock music -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
Rock music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021676911
ISBN 9781442237520
144223752X
9781442237520