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Blackstar - David Bowies sista studioalbum. En transtextuell studie av sångtexterna och deras betydelser

Ljungberg, Niklas LU (2019) LIVK10 20191
Comparative Literature
Abstract
This thesis examines the song lyrics of Blackstar, David Bowies last studio album, released in 2016. By identifying the narrative voice/voices of each song, their possible characters, and using the transtextuality theory, as defined by Gérard Genette, to analyse the interplay between lyrics, music, paratexts, rock videos and literary texts, the study's aim is to find interpretative meanings to each song, and to the album as a whole. It concludes that the first four songs of the album introduce two new Bowie-characters, 'Button Eyes' and 'The Trickster', where the former represents the physical David Bowie who dies, and the latter becomes the custodian of Bowie's art. The last three songs are perfomed without the use of characters and can... (More)
This thesis examines the song lyrics of Blackstar, David Bowies last studio album, released in 2016. By identifying the narrative voice/voices of each song, their possible characters, and using the transtextuality theory, as defined by Gérard Genette, to analyse the interplay between lyrics, music, paratexts, rock videos and literary texts, the study's aim is to find interpretative meanings to each song, and to the album as a whole. It concludes that the first four songs of the album introduce two new Bowie-characters, 'Button Eyes' and 'The Trickster', where the former represents the physical David Bowie who dies, and the latter becomes the custodian of Bowie's art. The last three songs are perfomed without the use of characters and can be interpreted as a reflection and farewell by Bowie himself. (Less)
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author
Ljungberg, Niklas LU
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LIVK10 20191
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
David Bowie Blackstar song lyrics narrative character transtextuality intertextuality Button Eyes Trickster literature music
language
Swedish
id
8979717
date added to LUP
2019-06-28 16:09:18
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2019-06-28 16:09:18
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  abstract     = {{This thesis examines the song lyrics of Blackstar, David Bowies last studio album, released in 2016. By identifying the narrative voice/voices of each song, their possible characters, and using the transtextuality theory, as defined by Gérard Genette, to analyse the interplay between lyrics, music, paratexts, rock videos and literary texts, the study's aim is to find interpretative meanings to each song, and to the album as a whole. It concludes that the first four songs of the album introduce two new Bowie-characters, 'Button Eyes' and 'The Trickster', where the former represents the physical David Bowie who dies, and the latter becomes the custodian of Bowie's art. The last three songs are perfomed without the use of characters and can be interpreted as a reflection and farewell by Bowie himself.}},
  author       = {{Ljungberg, Niklas}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Blackstar - David Bowies sista studioalbum. En transtextuell studie av sångtexterna och deras betydelser}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}