{"product_id":"9781501365379","title":"Blackstar Theory : The Last Works of David Bowie","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowie�_Ts ambitious last works: his surprise �_~comeback�_T project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artist�_Ts death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. The book explores the swirl of themes that orbit and entangle these projects from a starting point in musical analysis and features new interviews with key collaborators from the period: producer Tony Visconti, graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook, musical director Henry Hey, saxophonist Donny McCaslin and assistant sound engineer Erin Tonkon.   These works tackle the biggest of ideas: identity, creativity, chaos, transience and immortality. They enact a process of individuation for the Bowie meta-persona and invite us to consider what happens when a star dies. In our universe, dying stars do not disappear - they transform into new stellar objects, remnants and gravitational forces. The radical potential of the Blackstar is demonstrated in the rock star supernova that creates a singularity resulting in cultural iconicity. It is how a man approaching his own death can create art that illuminates the immortal potential of all matter in the known universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45457753473245,"sku":"9781501365379","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781501365379.jpg?v=1719935305","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781501365379","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}