Zack Stiegler
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Thanks for the comments,
Thanks for the comments, Mike. Your connection to theater and opera is especially salient- the ways in which musical motifs representing certain characters are reprised and reframed absolutely allows for the kind of drastic shift in tone discussed in the ... -
Hi Leanne- I love the
Hi Leanne- I love the posthumous twist you've added here, and I think you're spot on. I suppose one main difference in this most recent recontextualization is that it's been prescribed for/onto Bowie rather than by him, as in the previous r ... -
It may be cynical, but your
It may be cynical, but your claim is certainly a valid one, Aaron- and there is at least an ounce of opportunism here (if not more). Your comment has me thinking back to the post-9/11 pop landscape, where Bowie peers such as McCartney, Mellencamp, Springs ... -
Audiences + Haunting
What an excellent case and writeup, Leanne. As you note, there are so many layers here. In relation to the discussion of audience, I think that awareness of the original matters only in that it allows access to a different dimension of ghostliness. Certai ...