Blackstar Theory
The Last Works of David Bowie
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2022
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-6537-9 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-6537-9 (ISBN)
Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie’s ambitious last works: his surprise ‘comeback’ project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artist’s death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. The book explores the swirl of themes that orbit and entangle these projects from a starting point in musical analysis and features new interviews with key collaborators from the period: producer Tony Visconti, graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook, musical director Henry Hey, saxophonist Donny McCaslin and assistant sound engineer Erin Tonkon.
These works tackle the biggest of ideas: identity, creativity, chaos, transience and immortality. They enact a process of individuation for the Bowie meta-persona and invite us to consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe, dying stars do not disappear - they transform into new stellar objects, remnants and gravitational forces. The radical potential of the Blackstar is demonstrated in the rock star supernova that creates a singularity resulting in cultural iconicity. It is how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.
These works tackle the biggest of ideas: identity, creativity, chaos, transience and immortality. They enact a process of individuation for the Bowie meta-persona and invite us to consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe, dying stars do not disappear - they transform into new stellar objects, remnants and gravitational forces. The radical potential of the Blackstar is demonstrated in the rock star supernova that creates a singularity resulting in cultural iconicity. It is how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.
Leah Kardos is a senior lecturer in music at Kingston University London, UK, where she co-founded the Visconti Studio with music producer Tony Visconti. She specializes in the areas of record production, pop aesthetics and criticism, and exploring interdisciplinary approaches to creative practice.
List of musical figures
List of track analyses
Preface
Part 1: Last Act
1. Lateness
2. Remystification
3.The Next Day
4. Assemblage
Part 2: Per Ardua ad Astra
5. Icarus Takes His Pratfall
6. Lazarus
7. The Next Bardo
Part 3: Black Star
8. Black Holes, Black Music, Black Arts, Black Hearts and Button Eyes
9. Chaos and Chemistry
10. Prodigal Sons
11. Blackstar Theory
Epilogue: Legacies and Voids
Reference list and bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.02.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Ex:Centrics |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 356 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-6537-1 / 1501365371 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-6537-9 / 9781501365379 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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