RTA 905 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Celluloid, Frank Zappa, If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
29 Mar 2018
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Inflation reaches 11% per year savings are wiped out. More glam: mott the hoople: hit: (cid:862)all the you(cid:374)g dudes(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:449)(cid:396)itte(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) da(cid:448)id bo(cid:449)ie(cid:895) T. rex: marc bolan was good friends with bowie. 50s/early 60: hit: (cid:862)ba(cid:374)g a go(cid:374)g,(cid:863) (cid:862)(cid:1006)(cid:1004)th ce(cid:374)tu(cid:396)(cid:455) bo(cid:455)(cid:863) Slade: hit: (cid:862)cu(cid:373) o(cid:374) feel the noiz(cid:863) Slade was a huge and a major proponent of the glam aesthetic. Like bowie, the singer, bryan ferry, developed a stage persona: a drunken neurotic sensitive narcissistic socialite with a broken heart. Fe(cid:396)(cid:396)(cid:455) a(cid:272)hed to es(cid:272)ape p(cid:396)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)ial e(cid:374)gla(cid:374)d; (cid:862)that"s (cid:449)hat the vi(cid:396)gi(cid:374)ia plai(cid:374) is all about: dreaming of going to ne(cid:449) yo(cid:396)k a(cid:374)d li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g i(cid:374) a(cid:374) atti(cid:272) a(cid:374)d pai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) Fe(cid:396)(cid:396)(cid:455)"s a(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272)a is (cid:396)ef(cid:396)a(cid:272)ted th(cid:396)ough (cid:272)elluloid a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)(cid:396)(cid:455)li(cid:272: he imagines gliding across midnight-blue casino floors and taking off in his studebaker to catch the. Last picture show at the drive-in: hit: (cid:862)mothe(cid:396) of pea(cid:396)l(cid:863) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the al(cid:271)u(cid:373) (cid:862)fo(cid:396) you(cid:396) pleasu(cid:396)e(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)9(cid:1011)(cid:1007)(cid:895, philosophical ballad; a nihilistic attempt at finding meaning amidst a loss of faith.
