Introduction: Glam rock in the global imaginary / Ian Chapman and Henry Johnson -- 1. "All that glitters" : glam, bricolage, and the history of post-war youth culture / Christine Feldman-Barrett and Andy Bennett -- 2. "Cosmic dancer" : Marc Bolan's otherworldly persona / Alison Blair -- 3. David Bowie and the art of performance / Shelton Waldrep -- 4. Gus Dudgeon's super sonic signature / Sam Bennett -- 5. Roxy Musicology : the substance of style / Jon Fitzgerald and Philip Hayward -- 6. No escape from reality : the postcolonial glam of Freddie Mercury / Nancy L. Stockdale -- 7. Glam Britannia : the intersection of glam and Britpop / Amanda Mills -- 8. Alice Cooper : glam rock's problem child / Ian Chapman -- 9. KISS, glam performance, and the incarnation of superheroes / Lee Chambers and Robert G. Weiner -- 10. All those wasted years : Hanoi Rocks and the transitions of glam / Brad Klypchak -- 11. Naughty women vs. macho men : glam-punk and homophobia in Southern California in the late 1970s / Jay Keister -- 12. When hip hop met glam : the disidentifications of Mykki Blanco / Giuseppe Zevolli -- 13. Twenty-first-century girl : Lady Gaga, performance art, and glam / Philip Auslander -- 14. "Visual-kei" : glamour in Japanese pop music / Henry Johnson and Akitsugu Kawamoto -- 15. Toward a gendered aesthetics of K-pop / Timothy Laurie -- 16. Southeast Asian glamour : the strange case of rock kapak in Malaysia / Marco Ferrarese -- 17. Tropical glam : the libertarian glitter scene in Brazil / Fabiana Caso and Renata Aquino Ribeiro -- 18. Drongoes in the dress-up box : glam rock in Australia / Paul "Nazz" Oldham -- 19. Spotting the rare sequinned Kiwi : three approaches to glam rock in 1970s New Zealand / Ian Chapman.