HYBRID: David Bowie: Glam Rock's Starman
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Thursday, September 24, October 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.THIS COURSE WILL BE RECORDED.Register Here David Bowie defined British glam rock by combining an ever-changing extraterrestrial visual image with flashy hard rock, introspective songwriting, soul, electronic experimentation, and more. After "Space Oddity" marked him as a singer and songwriter determined to explore exotic territory, he rose to stardom with his Ziggy Stardust character. Then he moved into soul and eerie futurism with songs like "Young Americans" and "Heroes" before his biggest smash with 1983's "Let's Dance." This course highlights his peak fifteen years of creativity between the late 1960s and early 1980s, with historical commentary amplified by both common and rare video and audio clips.Richie Unterberger is the author of thirteen books on 1960s music, a teacher at the Fromm Institute of the University of San Francisco and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, a lecturer on rock history at
