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[ecrea] new book David Bowie - critical perspectives

Wed Apr 08 08:30:12 GMT 2015






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/DAVID BOWIE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES edited by Eoin Devereux, Aileen
Dillane and Martin J. Power.  Published by Routledge. /

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/David Bowie: Critical Perspectives/ examines in detail the many layers
of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in popular culture.
This interdisciplinary book brings together established and emerging
scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including musicology,
sociology, art history, literary theory, philosophy, politics, film
studies and media studies. Bowie’s complexity as a singer, songwriter,
producer, performer, actor and artist demands that any critical
engagement with his overall work must be interdisciplinary and
wide-ranging in its scope. The chapters are organised around the key
themes of ‘textualities’, ‘psychologies’, ‘orientalisms’, ‘art and
agency’ and ‘performing and influencing’ in Bowie’s work. This
comprehensive book contributes a great deal to the study of popular
music, performance, gender, religion, popular media and celebrity.

Introduction: Where Are We Now? Contemporary Scholarship on David Bowie
/Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane and Martin J. Power /Part 1:
Assemblages 1. David Bowie is. /Kathryn Johnson /2. In this Age of Grand
Allusion: Bowie, Nihilism, and Meaning /Richard Fitch /3. Culminating
Sounds and (En)visions: A Critical Reading of Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes."
/Eoin Devereux, Aileen Dillane, and Martin J. Power /Part 2:
Subjectivities 4. Turn Myself to Face Me: David Bowie in the 1990s and
the Discovery of the Authentic Self /Bethany Usher and Stephanie Fremaux
/5. ‘Crashing Out with Sylvian’: David Bowie, Carl Jung and the
Unconscious /Tanja Stark /6.Dear Dr. Freud: David Bowie Hits the Couch
(A Psychoanalytical Approach)/ Ana Leone /Part 3: Orientalisms 7.Moss
Garden: David Bowie and Japonism in Fashion in the 1970s/ Helene Thian
/8. Reconsidering Bowie in the 1980s: The Case for China Girl /Shelton
Waldrep /9.Embodying Stardom, Representing Otherness: David Bowie in
‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’/ Mehdi Derfoufi /Part 4: Agencies 10.
Art’s Filthy Lesson /Tiffany Naiman /11. Authorship, Agency, and Visual
Analysis: Reading (some) Bowie Album Covers /Ian Chapman /12. Revisiting
Bowie’s Berlin/ David Buckley /Part 5: Alterities 13. David Bowie: The
Extraordinary Rock Star as Film Star /Julie LobalzoWright /14. The
(becoming-wo)Man Who Fell to Earth /Dene October /15. Out of this World:
Ziggy Stardust and the Spatial Interplay of Lyrics, Vocals, and
Performance/ Barish Ali and Heidi Wallace /Part 6: Affinities 16. David
Bowie Now and Then: Questions of Fandom and Late Style /Nick Stevenson
/17. How Superficial!: David Bowie and the Art of Surfacing in 21st
Century Literature /Vanessa Garcia/

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All the best
Eoin

Dr. Eoin Devereux, Assistant Dean, Research,  Faculty of Arts,
Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick.


Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Adjunct Professor/Docent in Contemporary
Culture, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.

Contact Details:  Room C1085,  Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social
Sciences, University of Limerick, Ireland.

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