The work and figure of David Bowie will be the object of study starting this week in the University of Oviedo (Spain) in a course that takes the title of one of the albums with which El Duque Blanco changed the aesthetics and sound of rock: "The man who sold the World»(1970). The course is organized by the Vice-Rector's Office for University Extension, it is part of the 'Pop-rock music classroom' that has already programmed training cycles dedicated to analyzing musicians such as Nick Cave or trends such as punk or Britpop. Classes will take place in the cities of Oviedo, Gijón and Avilés with a limit of 80 students per venue.
David Robert Jones is the real name of Bowie, who was born on January 8, 1947 in London, into a wealthy family and, until he opted professionally for music, worked as a designer, advertising cartoonist and actor. His beginnings are linked to groups such as The King Bees, David Jones, The Lower Third or The Monkees, but his acting talent was nurtured by the theater of Lindsay Kemp, whose company he was part of between 1967 and 1969, and Marcel Marceau. Both of them, and also glam-rock musician Marck Bolan (T Tex), taught Bowie the secrets of mime, cross-dressing, and the art of glitter and sequins that, along with guitar, sax, and keyboards, shaped their hallmarks.
According to the course director, Eduardo Viñuela, there are few figures in rock history who have influenced the musical changes of recent decades as much as Bowie, especially at a time like the end of the sixties when he had left a aside the playful sense oriented to dance and entered the fields of other formal and conceptual explorations.
«Bowie is an exponent of the projection of the musician as a character, a master of the art of lying, of pretense and of ambiguities. A chameleon with a postmodern message capable of harboring a multitude of meanings and meanings ».
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