From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania -- ''the foremost popular music critic of this era'' (Times Literary Supplement) -- comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop. Spearheaded by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, and Roxy Music, glam rock reveled in artifice and spectacle. Reacting against the hairy, denim-clad rock bands of the late sixties, glam was the first true teenage rampage of the new decade. In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds takes you on a wild cultural tour through the early seventies, a period packed with glitzy costumes and alien make-up, thrilling music and larger-than-life personas. Shock and Awe offers a fresh, in-depth look at the glam and glitter phenomenon, placing it the wider seventies context of social upheaval and political disillusion. It explores how artists like Lou Reed, New York Dolls, and Queen broke with the hippie generation, celebrating illusion and artifice over truth and authenticity. Probing the genre's major themes -- stardom, androgyny, image, decadence, fandom, apocalypse -- Reynolds tracks glam's legacy as it unfolded in subsequent decades, from eighties art-pop icons like Kate Bush through to twenty-first century idols of outrage such as Lady Gaga. Shock and Awe shows how the original glam artists' obsessions with fame, extreme fashion, and theatrical excess continue to reverberate through contemporary pop culture.

Product Description: From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania -- ''the foremost popular music critic of this era'' (Times Literary Supplement) -- comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop...read more

Product Description: From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania--"the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)--comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop...read more

Explores the popularity of electronic dance music and the culture surrounding it, focusing on the fad of midnight-to-dawn revels, known as 'raves,' which offers a Dionysian world of dance, drugs, and debauchery

Product Description: In his dual role of historian and participating observer, music critic and journalist Simon Reynolds writes what is considered by many to be both his most ambitious work and the best book about rave music and dance culture. From the origins of dance culture with sophisticated Detroit techno, hedonistic Chicago house, and New York’s bacchanal garage music to the dawn of acid house and rave in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s and the export of Balearic culture from Ibiza, Reynolds documents the explosion of this new lifestyle fueled by drugs and a music revolution...read more

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A music journalist and author of Generation Ecstasy explores the inventive and innovative music created in the years following the heyday of punk, looking at the contributions of Talking Heads, Devo, Joy Division, Gang of Four, and others to the evolution of modern music. Original.

A look at the geographic, political, economic, and social aspects of the Netherlands. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Published to accompany an important exhibition, this richly illustrated volume outlines the link between the Pre-Raphaelite artists in Britain and the Expressionists on the Continent. It focuses on the crucial contribution made by artists in Germany to the European Symbolist movement as a whole, providing for the first time a much-needed comparison to developments in England and other countries worldwide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Designed for gift-giving, an attractive collection of quotations gathers the investment guru's brightest, wittiest, and most insightful observations on achieving success, culled from speeches, writings, and interviews. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Mixing analysis with interviews, this study of rock music celebrates the underground music that has challenged consensual notions of what makes rock legitimate. Topics discussed include the rise of feminine consciousness in rock and the continuing allure of apocalyptic heavy metal...read more