Stardust memories.(Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music)(Book review)

From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music

by Philip Auslander

University of Michigan Press

259 pages, $24.95

THE NARRATIVE VOICEOVER for Velvet Goldmine (1998), Todd Haynes' film exploration of the 1970's glam rock phenomenon, opens with the accurate words, "Histories, like ancient ruins, are the fictions of empires." In his formidable new study, Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music, Philip Auslander mines the complexly layered history of the "glitter era," with his focus trained largely on the movement's ...

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