Until recently, glam rock has been a mere footnote in popular
music history: a style-over-substance lark in an otherwise serious
industry. Glam Rock: Music in Sound and Vision reveals the true story of
how glam carved out a place as a diverse musical style and how it
related to the artistic, political, economic, emotional, sexual, and
commercial scenes of the late twentieth century. Committed to spectacle
but also to musical ingenuity, glam delivered an exhilarating burst of
color that offered a joyful reboot for pop culture—“a total blam blam!”
Glam
swept through Britain to North America in the early 1970s with the
foundational stardom of T Rex and David Bowie, offering an alternative
to the established rock and pop styles that had started to bore a
segment of young listeners. As Alice Cooper and KISS filled concert
arenas, British acts as diverse as the Rolling Stones, Elton John, and
Queen consciously adopted glam’s flair for drama. Refreshing and
reinvigorating, glam influenced later musical movements and moments from
glitterfunk to punk, from new wave to new romanticism, and from hair
metal to the synth-pop of self-conscious changelings like Marilyn Manson
and Lady Gaga.
In Simon Philo’s engaging history, glam
finally gets the spotlight it deserves. As an essential force in the
history of popular music, glam offers a prism through which to explore
’70s pop culture in all its glitter and charm.
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