#hiddles-booty

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hiddles-booty replied to your post: Some of my friends at UCLA ar...

Seriously, when is seeking out higher education something to criticize

yes thank exactly

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hiddles-booty replied to your post “so what career path would i have to choose wherein it would be at...”

Music history, ethnomusicology, something like that

it's just i don't actually know that much about music; i just know a lot about david bowie. so i guess i would approach any kind of study of the man in the context of culture and society at large rather than music history? i mean there are already rock critics debating bowie's place in the history of rock and roll who would know a lot more about it than i would (not to mention a rock journalist writing about someone like bowie is going to have a certain affinity for the sensational, ahem--which i think was largely bowie's problem with all the biographies that have been published about him?). so i guess what i'm thinking is late 20th century cultural and intellectual history with a very particular concentration on david bowie, but that's pretty narrow even for academia. i figure certainly as rock stars go bowie's significance extends well beyond his music and into the realms of fashion, visual art, and culture, so i'd sort of be interested in exploring david bowie the public figure as a catalyst (but mostly an embodiment) of shifting cultural and societal trends with regards to the steady breakdown of traditional notions of gender, the fragmentation of identity, the role of the celebrity vs. the artist, and well basically just postmodernism in general. although if i were ever to write a paper on bowie the research would basically just be me doing exactly what i do all the time anyway, but with more note taking and footnotes.