Exploring artistic, political, psychological, sexual, and commercial contexts, this book brings a fresh perspective to the transatlantic cultural history of this unique movement in popular music.

Explores the many ways glam rock paved the way for new explorations of identity in terms of gender, sexuality, and performance

In Shock and Awe, renowned music critic Simon Reynolds takes you on a wild cultural tour through the early Seventies, a period packed with glitzy costumes and alien make-up, thrilling music and larger-than-life personas.

Covering four decades of music history, this engaging book explores a genre of pop music that has been overlooked, under-reported, and ineffectively characterized—but which nevertheless remains immensely popular.

This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective.

Glam gave pop back to disaffected teenagers who lapped it up and reinvented themselves as space-age androgynes.Tying in with the release of Todd Haynes' eagerly awaited film, Velvet Goldmine, Barney Hoskyns' Glam! is a trenchant survey of a ...

Drawing on the collections of the V&A, Glam Rock narrates the story of glam and explores its impact on fashion, theatre and film.

Le glam rock peut se diviser en trois familles musicales, la sérieuse (art rock) pour Roxy Music, l’extravagante (glitter rock) avec Slade ou les New York Dolls et l’adolescente (teeny-pop) pour Sweet ou les Bay City Rollers.

Glam was a British pop phenomenon, and a who's who of Britain's pop charts from 1970 through 1976 provides the framework for this book.

From its impetuous arrival to its tragic finale when glittering pop alchemists, Marc of T. Rex, died in a shocking car accident, this is the full, fast-moving story of Glam."--Back cover.