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Bowie musicology: mapping Bowie's sound and music language across the catalogue
2017
Continuum. Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
David Bowie's music career is one marked by dramatic image transformations and unexpected and frequent aesthetic changes. However, if we look beyond the surface and analyse Bowie's back catalogue for patterns and trends in his songwriting methodology, we can start to see evidence of a consistent creative voice that has been present and evolving throughout. This music language uses vocal articulations, idiosyncratic approaches to melody and harmony, mode and tonality, familiar and foreign sonic
doi:10.1080/10304312.2017.1334387
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