Glam rock #1.: David Bowie (UK, 70s-80s)
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This programme is held in Hungarian.
In 2022, a permanent program was launched on a monthly basis at the MZH Multimedia Library and Club under the title: Rock and Roll Free University. The Rock and Roll Free University presents the most important processes and performers in international pop history. It assumes that rock and roll, somewhat simplified, is the result of a unique cultural-historical union: when the musical tradition of the black slaves brought from Africa (blues) and that of the white settlers who emigrated from Europe (country) met and continuously blended with each other on a third continent, in America. Moreover, all this took place in a radically transforming society, following technological development and the related industrialization and urbanization. In the tenth season of this series (autumn 2026) it will focus on glam rock sprouting in the United Kingdom (David Bowie, Queen, Slade, Roxy Music) and its American representatives (Alice Cooper, Kiss).
Success, money, glitter—one of the most popular British pop music trends of the early 1970s, glam rock. One of the most significant and undoubtedly most influential figures of this pop culture is David Bowie. Alias Ziggy Stardust. He has been called everything: the “Bob Dylan of the seventies”, “the most influential rock personality since the Beatles”, the “great summarizing performer”, as well as a poseur, role-player, manipulator, and the chameleon of rock. He left no one indifferent. And this in itself already indicates that we are dealing with an artist who is unique in his own way, whose impact far exceeded rock music; he influenced not only the world of entertainment and the arts, but also the thinking and behavior of contemporary artists.
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Rock and roll is, somewhat simplistically, the result of a particular cultural-historical fusion: that of when the musical traditions of Black slaves brought over from Africa met those of white settlers who had emigrated from Europe to the new world, the Americas. Moreover, all this took place in a radically transforming society, following technological progress and its associated industrialisation and urbanisation. In the second season of this series, we look at the social, cultural and musical events of the period from Elvis to the twilight of the rock and roll era in the Fifties.
