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Philip Auslander's 'Performing Glam Rock' explores the intersection of gender and theatricality in popular music, particularly focusing on the glam rock genre of the 1970s. The book analyzes key artists like Marc Bolan and David Bowie, examining their contributions to glam style and identity politics. It includes reflections on performance, gender identity, and the evolution of rock music, supported by extensive research and acknowledgments of various contributors.

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Aulsander 2006

Philip Auslander's 'Performing Glam Rock' explores the intersection of gender and theatricality in popular music, particularly focusing on the glam rock genre of the 1970s. The book analyzes key artists like Marc Bolan and David Bowie, examining their contributions to glam style and identity politics. It includes reflections on performance, gender identity, and the evolution of rock music, supported by extensive research and acknowledgments of various contributors.

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Performing

glam rock
Performing
glam rock

gender and theatricality in popular music

philip auslander

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS Ann Arbor


Copyright © by the University of Michigan 2006
All rights reserved
Published in the United States of America by
The University of Michigan Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
c Printed on acid-free paper

2009 2008 2007 2006 4 3 2 1

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,


or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.

A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Auslander, Philip, 1956–


Performing glam rock : gender and theatricality in popular music /
Philip Auslander.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-472-09868-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-472-09868-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-472-06868-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-472-06868-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Rock music—
History and criticism. 2. Rock musicians. 3. Gender identity in
music. I. Title.
ML3534.A9 2006
781.66—dc22 2005017928
for deanna, my own true love
acknowledgments

I would like to thank my colleagues and students in the School of


Literature, Communication, and Culture of the Georgia Institute of
Technology for their support and patience with my nattering about
glam rock for quite a few years. I particularly want to acknowledge
the students who have participated over the last three years in my
Music as Performance course, the proving ground for my approach
here. I would also like to thank all those, too numerous to mention,
who provided me with venues at conferences and universities in
which to present this material: I pro‹ted enormously from the feed-
back. A shout-out particularly to Vivian Patraka, whose timely
invitation made it much easier for me to ‹nish the project. And
thanks to Laci Reed for canine companionship.
A number of people were kind enough to read and comment on
early versions of these chapters: Susan Fast, Judith Halberstam, Jon
McKenzie, Richard Pettengill, and Peter Shapiro. Thank you all.
Thanks also to “anonymous” readers Will Straw and Maria Del-
gado for your positive reinforcement and good suggestions.
Special thanks to LeAnn Fields for her un›agging support and
faith in the project.
Portions of the introduction were published originally in “Perfor-
mance Analysis and Popular Music: A Manifesto,” Contemporary
Theatre Review 14.1 (2004). Portions of chapters 1 and 5 appeared in
“Good Old Rock and Roll: Performing the 1950s in the 1970s,”
Journal of Popular Music Studies 15.2 (2003). An early version of
chapter 6 appeared as “I Wanna Be Your Man: Suzi Quatro’s Musi-
cal Androgyny,” Popular Music 23.1 (2004). “The Inauthentic
Voice: Vocal Production in Glam Rock,” a schematic version of
chapter 5, was published in Kunst-Stimmen, ed. Doris Kolesch and
Jenny Schrödl (Bonn: Theater der Zeit, 2004). These materials are
reprinted here by kind permission of their original publishers.
Contents

List of Illustrations xi
Introduction
Personal and Disciplinary Re›ections 1
1. Glamticipations
Rock Faces the 1970s 9
2. Glamography
The Rise of Glam Rock 39
3. King of the Highway, Queen of the Hop
Marc Bolan and the Evolution of Glam Style 71
4. Who Can I Be Now?
David Bowie and the Theatricalization of Rock 106
5. Inauthentic Voices
Gender Bending and Genre Blending with Bryan Ferry
and Roy Wood 150
6. Suzi Quatro Wants to Be Your Man
Female Masculinity in Glam Rock 193
Glamology
Glam Rock and the Politics of Identity 227
Works Cited 235
Index 249
illustrations

Table 1. Canonical Glam Rock Artists 43


Fig. 1. Tyrannosaurus Rex, ca. 1968 77
Fig. 2. Marc Bolan, ca. 1972 93
Fig. 3. David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, ca. 1973 125
Fig. 4. Mick Ronson and David Bowie, ca. 1973 142
Fig. 5. Roxy Music, ca. 1972 155
Fig. 6. Roy Wood performing with Wizzard, ca. 1974 184
Fig. 7. Suzi Quatro, ca. 1974 202

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