Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century (Main)
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Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century (Main)

Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century (Main)

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Simon Reynolds (Author)  

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A Guardian, Sunday Times, Mojo, Daily Telegraph and Observer Book of the Year Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017 As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Slade, Roxy Music, Iggy, Lou Reed, Be Bop Deluxe, David Essex -- all are represented here. Reynolds charts the retro future sounds, outrageous styles and gender-fluid sexual politics that came to define the first half of the seventies and brings it right up to date with a final chapter on glam in hip hop, Lady Gaga, and the aftershocks of David Bowie's death. Shock and Awe is a defining work and another classic in the Faber Social rock n roll canon to stand alongside Rip it Up, Electric Eden and Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock and Retromania.
  • Contributor: Simon Reynolds
  • Imprint: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN13: 9780571301720
  • Number of Pages: 720
  • Packaged Dimensions: 129x197x42mm
  • Packaged Weight: 570
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Release Date: 2017-07-06
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock and Retromania.

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