Journal article
The insignificance of David Bowie: Latin America’s refusal of a “world icon”
Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.31(4), pp.509-518
2017
Abstract
David Bowie doesn’t matter very much. That seems like a bizarre remark, particularly in a special issue dedicated to the opposite view. But in Latin America, he is of minimal importance by contrast with other prominent English-language pop-music exports that journal readers will know, such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths or The Cure. How can this be true of an artist who is routinely labelled a world icon? Our paper identifies several reasons: nation-building and rock music’s first steps in Latin America, progressive cultural politics, conservative gender norms and a continent dominated by dictatorships when Bowie was becoming a putative ‘world icon’...
Details
- Title
- The insignificance of David Bowie: Latin America’s refusal of a “world icon”
- Authors/Creators
- J. Saavedra Utman (Author/Creator)T. Miller (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.31(4), pp.509-518
- Publisher
- Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 991005543610307891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
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- Citation topics
- 10 Arts & Humanities
- 10.99 Literary Theory
- 10.99.2330 Latin American Literature
- Web Of Science research areas
- Communication
- Cultural Studies
- Film, Radio, Television
- ESI research areas
- Social Sciences, general