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    New York, NY ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic
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    b3kat_BV047877435
    Format: xx, 239 Seiten
    ISBN: 9781501365379 , 9781501365386
    Series Statement: Ex:centrics
    Content: "In the final year of his life David Bowie achieved his long-time ambition to write and stage a musical. At the same time, he produced his final record, the multi-Grammy award winning Blackstar. In Lazarus, Bowie's protagonist is an alien outsider, stuck on earth and unable to die; he must find within himself the reason, and heroism, to finally be free. 2013's The Next Day, tells stories from the perspectives of a diverse cast of obscure literary characters who are experiencing death in some way. In contrast, Blackstar elegantly invites us to consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe dying stars do not disappear, they transform into new stellar objects, remnants and gravitational forces. When a pop star dies their body of work may live on; with enough critical mass, a remnant legacy may transform an individual into something bigger than what they were: supermassive, god-sized. This book analyzes the words, images, music and sounds of Bowie's final works, critically appraising it as death art that leverages its power from the artist's demise. With Lazarus and Blackstar Bowie assembles an existentialist framework for immortality that echoes David Bowman's journey through the Star Gate in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In Bowie's version, the transformation comes through death's gateway; ascension to a new state of universal being"--
    Note: Part 1: Last act -- Lateness -- Remystification -- The next day -- Assemblage -- Part 2: Per ardua ad astra -- Icarus takes his pratfall -- Lazarus -- The next bardo -- Part 3: [Star symbol] -- Black holes, black music, black arts, black hearts, and button eyes -- Chaos and chemistry -- Prodigal sons -- Blackstar theory -- Epilogue: Legacies and voids
    Additional Edition: Online version Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-1-5013-6539-3
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-5013-6540-9
    Language: English
    Subjects: Musicology
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    Keywords: Bowie, David 1947-2016 ; Geschichte 2013-2016
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