All the Young Dudes Why Glam Rock Matters All the Young Dudes glam rock s rallying cry turned last year David Bowie wrote it but Mott the Hoople owned it their version was and will ever remain glam s anthem a hymn of exuberant disenc
All the Young Dudes, glam rock s rallying cry, turned 40 last year David Bowie wrote it, but Mott the Hoople owned it their version was, and will ever remain, glam s anthem, a hymn of exuberant disenchantment that also happens to be one of rock s all time irresistible sing alongs Bowie, glam, and All the Young Dudes are inseparable in the public mind, summoning memo All the Young Dudes, glam rock s rallying cry, turned 40 last year David Bowie wrote it, but Mott the Hoople owned it their version was, and will ever remain, glam s anthem, a hymn of exuberant disenchantment that also happens to be one of rock s all time irresistible sing alongs Bowie, glam, and All the Young Dudes are inseparable in the public mind, summoning memories of a subculture dismissed as apolitical escapism, a glitter bomb of fashion and attitude that briefly relieved the malaise of the 70s Now, cultural critic Mark Dery gives the movement its due in an 8,000 word exploration of glam as rebellion through style As polymorphously perverse as the subculture it explores, All the Young Dudes Why Glam Matters is equal parts fan letter, visual culture criticism, queer theory, and true confession In bravura style, Dery teases out lines of connection between glam, the socioeconomic backdrop of the 70s, Oscar Wilde as a late Victorian Ziggy Stardust, the etymology and queer subtext of the slang term dude, the associative links between the 20s style cover of the Mott album on which Dudes appeared and the coded homoeroticism of the 20s magazine illustrator J.C Leyendecker considered in the context of the 1970s fad for all things 1920s , and Dery s own memories of growing up glam in 70s San Diego, where coming out as a Bowie fan even for straight kids was an invitation to bullying.Glam emboldened kids in Ameri
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From markdery page_id 130Mark Dery is a cultural critic He writes about American mythologies, American pathologies, the visual landscape, unpopular culture, masculinity, and dark matter of all sorts He is the author of The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium American Culture on the Brink 1999 and Escape Velocity Cyberculture at the End of the Century 1996 He edited Flame Wars The Discourse of Cyberculture 1994 , the anthology that inaugurated cyberstudies as an academic field and kick started the academic interest in techno feminism and black technoculture through Dery s trailblazing essay Black to the Future, in which he coined the term Afrofuturism His 1993 essay Culture Jamming Hacking, Slashing, and Sniping in the Empire of the Signs popularized the term culture jamming and helped launch the movement Widely republished on the Web, Culture Jamming remains the definitive theorization of this subcultural phenomenon Mark has taught in the Yale School of Art and the Department of Journalism at NYU and has been a Chancellor s Distinguished Fellow at UC Irvine and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome Mark s latest book is the essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts Drive By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams University of Minnesota Press April 2012 Bruce Sterling wrote the introduction Boing Boing s advance praise calls it intellectual journey through our darkest desires and strangest inclinations Luc Sante says it s a trustworthy and entertaining analysis of the lunatic fringe, which constitutes an ever larger portion of the discourse in America today Mark is at work on a biography of the artist, writer, and legendary eccentric Edward Gorey for Little, Brown.