{"product_id":"book-bx7z","title":"Shock and Awe","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eRip It Up\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand Start Again\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRetromania\u003c\/em\u003e—“the foremost popular music critic of this era (\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e)—comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpearheaded by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, and Roxy Music, glam rock reveled in artifice and spectacle. Reacting against the hairy, denim-clad rock bands of the late Sixties, glam was the first true teenage rampage of the new decade. In \u003cem\u003eShock and Awe,\u003c\/em\u003e Simon Reynolds takes you on a wild cultural tour through the early Seventies, a period packed with glitzy costumes and alien make-up, thrilling music and larger-than-life personas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShock and Awe\u003c\/em\u003e offers a fresh, in-depth look at the glam and glitter phenomenon, placing it the wider Seventies context of social upheaval and political disillusion. It explores how artists like Lou Reed, New York Dolls, and Queen broke with the hippie generation, celebrating illusion and artifice over truth and authenticity. Probing the genre’s major themes—stardom, androgyny, image, decadence, fandom, apocalypse—Reynolds tracks glam’s legacy as it unfolded in subsequent decades, from Eighties art-pop icons like Kate Bush through to twenty-first century idols of outrage such as Lady Gaga. \u003cem\u003eShock and Awe\u003c\/em\u003e shows how the original glam artists’ obsessions with fame, extreme fashion, and theatrical excess continue to reverberate through contemporary pop culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49345105494320,"sku":"BDbx7z","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49345105527088,"sku":"ZEbx7z","price":69.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49345105559856,"sku":"ZMbx7z","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/bx7z-Square-cover.jpg?v=1778301217","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bx7z","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}