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David Bowie was a pioneer in promoting gender fluidity and sexual ambiguity in the popular culture of the past half century. This chapter explores how his final album Blackstar, released just two days before his death in January 2016, epitomizes Bowie’s own radical embodiment of contraries, how it contemplates his own legacy and how it reflects contemporary developments in popular music and in particular complements the album to which Bowie and his producer Tony Visconti listened repeatedly as they assembled Blackstar, a problematic meditation on the toxicity of musical celebrity, on gender, sexuality, violence and suicide, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. |
