Full Description
The music, performances, and cultural impact of some of the most enduring figures in popular music are explored in Rock Music Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. This collection investigates authenticity, identity, and the power of the voices and images of widely circulated and shared artists that have become the soundtrack of our lives.
Contents
Introduction: Recreating Elvis Presley
Robert McParland
Chapter 1. Made in Rockdown: Paul McCartney and McCartney III
Richard D. Driver
Chapter 2. Sometimes I Turn: Bob Dylan's Enduring Iconoclasm
Keith Nainby and John Radosta
Chapter 3. Elton John and the Mondegreen Girls
Tanis MacDonald
Chapter 4. Reflections on/of Billy Joel
Joshua S. Duchan
Chapter 5. The Lion of Jamaica: Robert Nesta Marley OM as Icon
Eric Abbey
Chapter 6. Roger Waters and The Wall—Live in Berlin 1990: The Global Broadcast of a Historical Concert
Claudia Bucciferro
Chapter 7. How the 1980s Output of Bruce Springsteen and Morrissey Captured the Working-Class Experience in America and the UK
Anastasia Rose Hyden
Chapter 8. Loving the Alien(ated) Self: Theatricality, Artifice, and the Outsider Mythos of David Bowie
Douglas Rasmussen
Chapter 9. What It Feels Like for a Boy: Masculinity in Madonna's Mid-career Music Videos
David R. Coon
Chapter 10. Killer Queen: Freddie Mercury's Communicative Longevity
Julianna Kirschner
