Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie: Ex:Centrics
Autor Dr. Leah Kardosen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 feb 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501365379
ISBN-10: 1501365371
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Ex:Centrics
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1501365371
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Ex:Centrics
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
The author has privileged access to the team that created the album: producer Tony Visconti, his assistant Erin Tonkon, Donny McCaslin and the members of his band, and the mix engineer Tom Elmhirst. Their first-hand accounts will supply detail around studio-based creative processes, and chronological context
Notă biografică
Leah Kardos is a senior lecturer in music at Kingston University London, UK, where she co-founded the Visconti Studio with music producer Tony Visconti. She specializes in the areas of record production, pop aesthetics and criticism, and exploring interdisciplinary approaches to creative practice.
Cuprins
List of musical figuresList of track analysesPrefacePart 1: Last Act1. Lateness2. Remystification3.The Next Day4. AssemblagePart 2: Per Ardua ad Astra5. Icarus Takes His Pratfall6. Lazarus7. The Next BardoPart 3: Black Star8. Black Holes, Black Music, Black Arts, Black Hearts and Button Eyes9. Chaos and Chemistry10. Prodigal Sons11. Blackstar TheoryEpilogue: Legacies and VoidsReference list and bibliographyIndex
Recenzii
The lively complexity of Blackstar Theory is a fine match for Bowie - a sparkling, timely invitation to reimmerse oneself in the density of his final works, even if the shock of grief remains palpable.
This is the Bowie book that many of us DB fans have been waiting for Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie is a bravura performance by Leah Kardos, a sonata of glorious prose, amazing research, and academic erudition. ... I recommend it to any serious fan of David's, well actually, I recommend it to any serious fan of music, full stop. Go out and buy it now!
Kardos elegantly sidesteps speculation about Bowie's personal life in his final years, focusing instead on the work, taking in nods to Morrissey, Elvis Presley, Peaky Blinders and "the lust for life against the finality of everything".
Someone recently said there will never be a definitive book on Bowie and I would probably have agreed. But now that I've read this book I'm not so sure. This is as good as it gets.
Leah Kardos deftly uncovers the patterns in David Bowie's "late style," seeing the mortality, morality, and self-consciousness hiding in plain sight. While musicological analysis is at the heart of her endeavor, she is nevertheless attuned to the places in his epic career where there are fissures and unexpected correspondences with other forms of art. Blackstar Theory is a feast for any Bowie fan-rabid or casual-and performs the closure that many of us were seeking. A welcome addition to the growing canon of Bowie studies.
This is one of the most intelligent studies of David Bowie's music that will ever be published. It illuminates the interconnected web of meanings that are discoverable in his work in ways I have never encountered before. Leah Kardos shows with genuine illumination that the music of the late Bowie tackles big ideas such as the nature of identity, creativity, chaos, transience and im/mortality and provides us with signposts that take us back to the very start of his extraordinary life and musical career. The book is a major achievement.
A star-gazing telescope of sorts, Blackstar Theory provides an illuminating view of the last great works of a dying star. Intimately connected to the music and art of David Bowie, Leah Kardos elegantly crafts a respectful conduit for readers to share in her examination of the meanings generated by Bowie's work. As an in-depth scholarly guide and probing navigational tool, Blackstar Theory is a must-read for anyone wishing to engage with the constellation of meanings generated by Bowie's late music and art.
Leah Kardos's book is a lovely theoretical company. She notes how music is only a small part of a huge cycle that leads us on to other music, to art and literature via fashion, film, philosophy and form and back to the work in question.
This is the Bowie book that many of us DB fans have been waiting for Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie is a bravura performance by Leah Kardos, a sonata of glorious prose, amazing research, and academic erudition. ... I recommend it to any serious fan of David's, well actually, I recommend it to any serious fan of music, full stop. Go out and buy it now!
Kardos elegantly sidesteps speculation about Bowie's personal life in his final years, focusing instead on the work, taking in nods to Morrissey, Elvis Presley, Peaky Blinders and "the lust for life against the finality of everything".
Someone recently said there will never be a definitive book on Bowie and I would probably have agreed. But now that I've read this book I'm not so sure. This is as good as it gets.
Leah Kardos deftly uncovers the patterns in David Bowie's "late style," seeing the mortality, morality, and self-consciousness hiding in plain sight. While musicological analysis is at the heart of her endeavor, she is nevertheless attuned to the places in his epic career where there are fissures and unexpected correspondences with other forms of art. Blackstar Theory is a feast for any Bowie fan-rabid or casual-and performs the closure that many of us were seeking. A welcome addition to the growing canon of Bowie studies.
This is one of the most intelligent studies of David Bowie's music that will ever be published. It illuminates the interconnected web of meanings that are discoverable in his work in ways I have never encountered before. Leah Kardos shows with genuine illumination that the music of the late Bowie tackles big ideas such as the nature of identity, creativity, chaos, transience and im/mortality and provides us with signposts that take us back to the very start of his extraordinary life and musical career. The book is a major achievement.
A star-gazing telescope of sorts, Blackstar Theory provides an illuminating view of the last great works of a dying star. Intimately connected to the music and art of David Bowie, Leah Kardos elegantly crafts a respectful conduit for readers to share in her examination of the meanings generated by Bowie's work. As an in-depth scholarly guide and probing navigational tool, Blackstar Theory is a must-read for anyone wishing to engage with the constellation of meanings generated by Bowie's late music and art.
Leah Kardos's book is a lovely theoretical company. She notes how music is only a small part of a huge cycle that leads us on to other music, to art and literature via fashion, film, philosophy and form and back to the work in question.