In many ways, Bowie defied categorization by transcending binary identities like male and female or heterosexual and homosexual. Bowie even escaped fixed labeling as a musician, artist, actor, or performer, thereby asserting that rational order’s authority over individuals is illusory. His embrace of opposing images (male vs. female, public vs. private) was the linchpin ofContinue reading “When David Bowie Was a Muppet”
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Bowie in Berlin, Part 1
It is the spring of 2003, midway through my first year in graduate school, and my friend Nathan had earlier that day acquired a used vinyl copy of David Bowie’s Station to Station from Amoeba Music. Some months later, we are driving down Sunset Boulevard listening to the song “Negativland” from Neu!’s 1972 debut album.Continue reading “Bowie in Berlin, Part 1”
Updates all around…
Some updates on recent publishing projects of mine for those who are following such things… Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History has gone through proof editing, the cover copy has been approved, and it is now waiting for one more round of proofs, probably this week, before it goes into print. We’re close. MoreContinue reading “Updates all around…”
Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms
Rock and Romanticism: scholarship with a soundtrack. Yes, I have two anthologies with the main title Rock and Romanticism. The first was published early February 2018 by Lexington Books, and was focused on Blake and Wordsworth and, very generally, the genre of classic rock. This second book is Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as DarkContinue reading “Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms”
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 