David Bowie Critical Perspectives [Hardcover]

David Bowie: Critical Perspectivesexamines 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. Bowies 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 Bowies 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 Fasl£M