David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (33 1/3) by Glenn Hendler

After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U. S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic "Hunger City" populated by post-human "mutants. " Diamond Dogs includes the great glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" and utterly unique songs that combine lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching, grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic lyrics that reflect the album's origins in a projected Broadway musical version of Orwell's 1984 and Bowie's formative encounter with William S. Burroughs. In this book Glenn Hendler shows that each song on Diamond Dogs shifts the ground under you as you listen, not just by changing in musical style, but by being sung by a different "I" who directly addresses a different "you. ". This 2020 Bloomsbury Academic Paperback is in very good condition.

ISBN: 9781501336584 SKU: 1573708 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

Location: Music