All the Young Dudes Why Glam Rock Matters Single edition by Mark Dery Arts Photography eBooks
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“All the Young Dudes” is glam rock’s rallying cry. 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.
Written from an American perspective, All the Young Dudes 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 1920s-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 ‘70s fad for all things 1920s), and Dery’s own memories of growing up glam in the suburbs of Southern California, where coming out as a male Bowie fan—even for straight guys—was an invitation to bullying.
Glam emboldened kids in America and England to dream of a world beyond suburbia’s oppressive notions of normalcy, Dery argues, a world conjured up in pop songs full of Wildean irony and Aestheticism and jaw-dropping fashion statements to match. More important, glam drew inspiration from feminism and gay liberation to articulate a radical critique of mainstream manhood—a pomosexual vision of masculinity whose promise remains only partly fulfilled, even now.
All the Young Dudes Why Glam Rock Matters Single edition by Mark Dery Arts Photography eBooks
This is a breathtaking work of scholarship that manages to simultaneously raise the flag of All the Young Dudes while meticulously tracing the historical antecedents of the glam look. In November of 1972' Mott Hoople launched All the Young Dudes. One magazine hailed it as the Gay National Anthem. Bowie took it as a signature piece. But most important, "Bowie gave kids - straight kids, for the most part- license to play Alien for a Day. In fact the citation in my title was stated by Bowie. Bowie separated the bonds of how you looked and what you did "down there."This is simply a wonderful book tracing this movement back to Oscar Wilde and outward to a time when the author had to endure his pastor clothed for Saturday Night Fever. He traces the term dude from its possible roots, duds, a word for clothes. My favorite factoid in many a day is that a misheard lyric is called a mondegreen. And the author thinks that dude is one of the most ubiquitous. If you remember the first guy you saw with guy liner, this is a book for you. If you are considerably younger, definitely catch up on the days when rock challenged the all conquering male presentation.
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All the Young Dudes Why Glam Rock Matters Single edition by Mark Dery Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
Just a really interesting article about an inventive era in popular music. The names mentioned, really takes one on a high-heeled trip down memory lane. Of course, now I will have to figure out what I did with all those albums and dig them out. Finding Tut's tomb was probably easier.
Brief (perhaps overly so) but nevertheless insightful account of glam rock. Anecdote-driven, Dery's book gives a good discussion of reception and mixed popularity of it in the 1970s. Good intro history. Well written.
An interesting read, although American-centric in the extreme. There are huge holes in the history of the glam movement that began in Britain years before anyone in America had ever heard of it. With this core flaw in mind, I found it to be a good read of one person's experience with one song, one artist, and what it meant to him growing up as a kid far from the European glam scene.
I was that kid too and was only exposed to the more commercial aspects of glam that the media served up to America long after the scene had already peaked in Britain. Had there been an internet at the time, I would have been able to get in on the ground floor when the scene was fresh and new. I would also have known that Marc Bolan of T.Rex was the founder of glam and a superstar at the top of the British charts at a time when Bowie was still a nobody. Bolan's gender-bending glam archetype served as the inspiration for Bowie's own unique interpretation of glam. Due to differences in the way their music was marketed and promoted, Bowie got a limited crack at the American market while Bolan did not. It would still be many years before Bowie would lower his freak flag to a level where he would become accepted as a mainstream artist in America. Bolan didn't live long enough to have that opportunity.
Bowie claims that the song that serves as the topic of Dery's essay is part of the Ziggy mythology. The young dudes carrying the news are newsboys delivering news of the apocalypse. On a more earthbound level, they are Ziggy's apostles. On an even more earthbound level, they are the post 1960s kids, the glitter generation, the "homo superiors". According to an interview Bowie gave to Rolling Stone in 1973, the newsboys are carrying the same news that the newscaster was carrying in the song "Five Years", the news being that the Earth had only five years left to live. Bowie says, "'All the Young Dudes' is a song about this news. It's no hymn to the youth, as people thought. It is completely the opposite."
This short work took me back to the early 1970's when Glam Rock was the underground sound of the day. I remember watcvid Bowie as Ziggy Stardust on "Don Kirshner' s Rock Concert." It was so different from the mainstream album oriented rock of the day. It took me awhile to appreciate Bowie' s talent. Mark Dery' s analysis of the subgenre was interesting using the song "All The Young Dudes."
A beautiful slice of real life teenage adventure set in the 70s, with flashbacks to Oscar Wilde, 20s Harvard and the Sombrero club. It changed my mind about Bowie, not entirely for the better, but above all capturing the grandeur, not of Bowie, but of his fans. And their courage. Unbelievably brief and incredibly packed.
Wow. What a writer! Phew! Answered hundreds of questions I never dared ask. Quick, dank, tantalising read. Yikes! Made me feel like David, Freddie, Mick, and Lou were all still here! Should be a mandatory read for any glam fans.
The author gives his take as a fan of glam rock when he was a teen in
the Seventies. Also he talks about the environment and how the fans
and the band Mott the Hoople perceived the song All the Young Dudes
(from which this single book gets it's name).
He tells us the origin of the word 'dude' and how this song and glam rock
changed music and the bands in it (Ex, Mott the Hoople, T. Rex, Bowie,
Queen and others).
I enjoyed reading this since I was too young to enjoy music in the seventies
at the time. But I do like Queen, Bowie, and I am getting into the other
Seventies bands as well. Check out the end notes. Must read!
This is a breathtaking work of scholarship that manages to simultaneously raise the flag of All the Young Dudes while meticulously tracing the historical antecedents of the glam look. In November of 1972' Mott Hoople launched All the Young Dudes. One magazine hailed it as the Gay National Anthem. Bowie took it as a signature piece. But most important, "Bowie gave kids - straight kids, for the most part- license to play Alien for a Day. In fact the citation in my title was stated by Bowie. Bowie separated the bonds of how you looked and what you did "down there."
This is simply a wonderful book tracing this movement back to Oscar Wilde and outward to a time when the author had to endure his pastor clothed for Saturday Night Fever. He traces the term dude from its possible roots, duds, a word for clothes. My favorite factoid in many a day is that a misheard lyric is called a mondegreen. And the author thinks that dude is one of the most ubiquitous. If you remember the first guy you saw with guy liner, this is a book for you. If you are considerably younger, definitely catch up on the days when rock challenged the all conquering male presentation.
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