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.

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.

It was absolutely self-indulgent and it was ridiculously camp. It was a time we thought would never end. A time so long ago now it seems like a dream. But it wasn’t and I have the pictures to prove it.” Mick Rock

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.

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.

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.

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.

... Glam rock, with characters portraying androgynous sexuality and with allusions to golden-age Hollywood glamour, was instantly consid- ered to be camp. Their performances were filled with ironic lyrics and nostal- gic images of the past ...