MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pop Punk, Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop
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Embraced artificiality, constructedness: ironic distance from the characters he was creating. Ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars his band (biggest known mime character: alien rock star/feeling alien on earth. China girl); mid 1970s: soul music: in the same way of him changing his fictional characters, he also shifted his musical styles, little settling in music, unstable. Lecture 12 march 28th, 2011: e. g. Little richard: gender bending, bowie brings this queerness, challenging normalitive gender, introducing space alien, outside of normal. Overt embrace of theatricality, creation of fictional characters on stage, artificial, not new in pop music but new in rock music, went against authenticity; good authentic rock musicians was in street clothes. Bowie played forcefully in fictional characters, bending normalitive gender roles and androgyny. Watch video 1973 in london ziggy stardust character: crazy makeup, bowie itself is a piece of art, a spectacle, unusual look during that time before music videos evolved.
