He may have outgrown his Nazi obsession by the early 80's, but David Bowie still exhibited some pretty unsettling intimations of white supremacy, least subtly in the ultra-creepy "China Girl" video. Yet there's another Wagneresque streak in Bowie that is less discussed:
Wagner's theory of Gesamtkunstwerk, claiming that a person (read: a German) should be able to create and control every aspect of an artwork, seems alive and well in Bowie's approach to composing and performing, minus the Germanocentrism.
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