SHOCK AND AWE: GLAM ROCK AND ITS LEGACY, FROM THE SEVENTIES TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Book ID/图书代码： 10420016B89083
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 由“这个时代最著名的流行音乐评论家”Simon Reynolds写作的本书介绍了华丽摇滚的文化历史，赞美了华丽摇滚特有的时尚和那些特立独行的代表性明星，包括大卫鲍伊和艾利斯库伯，并追踪了华丽摇滚在当代流行音乐中留下的遗产。
对于严重依赖于视觉影像的风格来说，华丽摇滚有惊人的艺术家气派的一面，其缩影便是David Bowie和“Roxy Music”等，在声响与歌词上，这个流派的“华丽摇滚”音乐更加宏伟、戏剧化和具有野心，对这些艺人来说，“华丽摇滚”是这样的一个机会：随意操纵自己的外在形象，从而使自己对风格的感受成为整体艺术呈现的一部分，并且探索那潜藏在音乐气派、耀眼夺目表面下的黑暗。
本书将华丽摇滚置于上世纪70年代的社会、政治大背景之下进行研究，探索了Lou Reed、New York Dolls、Queen等与嬉皮一代决裂，并通过真理和真实性的追求歌颂幻象和技巧。作者探讨了这一音乐流派的主要主题——明星、雌雄同体、形象、颓废、粉丝、世界末日，并追踪了华丽摇滚在此后几十年间对乐坛的深刻影响，包括80年代的艺术流行天后Kate Bush一直到21世纪的流行偶像Lady Gaga等。本书展现了最初一代的华丽摇滚明星对名胜、极致时尚、过度戏剧性的痴迷是如何对当代流行文化产生深远的影响。（LYR）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Simon Reynolds 为《纽约时报》《艺术论坛》《观察家报》《Melody Maker》撰写音乐及流行文化方面的文章，并著有《Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock》。
Simon Reynolds writes about music and popular culture for the "New York Times", "ArtForum", the "Observer", and "Melody Maker", and is the author of "Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock".
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Now sold to:
Ventil Verlag in Germany.
Minimum Fax in Italy.
Caja Negra Editora in Spain.
Faber & Faber publish in the UK later this year; in the States it will be Harper Collins, Dey Street Books.
The complete book has sold in Germany to Ventil Verlag, in Italy to Minimum Fax and in Spain to Caja Negra.
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