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Performing glam rock

Philip Auslander

2006259 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2006
first published
  • 2006The University of Michigan Press · 259 pages · ENGISBN 9780472098682

This text situates the glam rock phenomenon historically and examines it as a set of performance strategies. It explores the ways in which glam rock, while celebrating the showmanship of 1950s rock and roll, began to undermine rock's adherence to the ideology of authenticity in the late 1960s.

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