Children of the Revolution: Bolan, Bowie and the Carnivalesque

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Title

Children of the Revolution: Bolan, Bowie and the Carnivalesque

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

Description

David Bowie and Marc Bolan were two glam rock stars who, in the 1970s, presented audiences with carnivalesque ‘alternatives’ to everyday reality. As a time of crisis and transformation, the 1970s in Britain has been characterised as a period of particularly difficult socio-economic turmoil, in a still relatively conservative society – particularly in relation to conventional norms of identity, ‘authenticity’, gender and sexuality. Bolan and Bowie, through their performance personae and narrat...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2017

Creator

Blair, Alison

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/7067

Related subjects

David Bowie / Marc Bolan / glam rock / rock music / popular music / carnivalesque / Bakhtin / 1970s

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