Glam Shock (The)

The shock of glam is the first publication of Audimat editions and we are extremely proud to inaugurate our catalog with a book by the critic Simon Reynolds, whose writing and tastes have indelibly influenced us. This exhaustive history of glam rock succeeds even as it revisits artists from the sixties and seventies, to propel us into a a highly topical reflection on the links between music, culture and society. It discusses gender and its performance, then very quickly the “ queerization" of instituted forms, of the camp practice of ambiguity and distancing, and passion - in the etymological sense of pathos, illness - glamour, fetish, halo, both sound and visual, returning to the careers of David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Roxy Music, New York Dolls and their influence on current artists like Lady Gaga, Kanye West...