'A New Career': nostalgia, mortality, and David Bowie's 'I Can't Give Everything Away'. Issue 4 (2nd October 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'A New Career': nostalgia, mortality, and David Bowie's 'I Can't Give Everything Away'. Issue 4 (2nd October 2021)
- Main Title:
- 'A New Career': nostalgia, mortality, and David Bowie's 'I Can't Give Everything Away'
- Authors:
- Masterson, Alice
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: David Bowie's swansong album Blackstar occupies a unique position in its proximity to the artist's death: just two days. It thus provides an opportunity to examine how music, nostalgia, and mortality interact. Combining study into the links between music and nostalgia and analysis of use of quotation, I propose a reading of a 'dual effect' in which the track 'I Can't Give Everything Away' explores themes of nostalgia and mortality whilst encouraging nostalgic feeling in its audiences. The article contributes to an understanding of how a musician's death can alter audience interaction with their music, and how music itself can reflect mortality.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal for cultural research. Volume 25:Issue 4(2021)
- Journal:
- Journal for cultural research
- Issue:
- Volume 25:Issue 4(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 25, Issue 4 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0025-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 413
- Page End:
- 428
- Publication Date:
- 2021-10-02
- Subjects:
- Nostalgia -- mortality -- quotation -- David Bowie -- Blackstar
Ethics -- Periodicals
Values -- Periodicals
Culture -- Periodicals
Intellectual life -- Periodicals
306 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1080/14797585.2021.2024057 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1479-7585
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 4965.847300
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