Global Glam and Popular Music: Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s. Edited by Ian Chapman and Henry Johnson. London: Routledge, 2016. 300pp. ISBN 978-1-138-82176-7 (Review)
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Branch, A. 2018. Global Glam and Popular Music: Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s. Edited by Ian Chapman and Henry Johnson. London: Routledge, 2016. 300pp. ISBN 978-1-138-82176-7 (Review). Popular Music. 37 (2), pp. 299-302. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143018000107
Authors | Branch, A. |
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Abstract | The cultural theorist Jon Stratton is a key inspiration in this account of the original British Glam Rock phenomenon and a sample of its global scions since the 1970s. Subsequent to Stratton's (1986) call for further critical work on this popular music formation, Stuart Hall (1992), in an unconnected piece, speculated on what the future of Cultural Studies, Stratton's disciplinary home, might look like. Hall's concern, analogous in some ways to Pierre Bourdieu's in the context of the contemporaneous French intellectual field, was predicated on a suspicion of what he read, particularly in terms of the North American interpretation of Cultural Studies, as a troubling shift towards theoreticism, the uncoupling of theory from practice in the pursuit of the institutionalisation of (sub)fields of scholarly enquiry, to adopt Bourdieu's spatial metaphor. Hall's plea was to embrace the ‘danger’ of the paradoxes arising from securing status (publish! career!), thus risking institutionally determined compromise, and maintaining a marginality that afforded greater autonomy – especially in terms of political agency beyond the academy – but necessarily meant forgoing a meaningful resource base, essential for agitating for social change. |
Keywords | Glam Rock; Popular Music Studies; Subcultures |
Journal | Popular Music |
Journal citation | 37 (2), pp. 299-302 |
ISSN | 0261-1430 |
1474-0095 | |
Year | 2018 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143018000107 |
Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143018000107 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 13 Apr 2018 |
01 May 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 20 Apr 2018 |
Accepted | 09 Jan 2018 |
Copyright information | This article has been published in a revised form in Popular Music: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143018000107. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Cambridge University Press |
License | All rights reserved |
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