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Title:
David Bowie made me gay : 100 years of LGBT music / Darryl W. Bullock.
Author:
Bullock, Darryl W., author.
Publication Information:
London : Duckworth Overlook, 2017.

©2017
Call Number:
ML3800 .B957 2017
Abstract:
With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. Bullock covers the history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community, and shows how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today. He discusses how gay, lesbian, and bisexual performers influenced jazz and blues; examines the almost forgotten Pansy Craze in the years between the two World Wars; chronicles the dark years after the depression when gay life was driven deep underground; celebrates the re-emergence of LGBT performers in the post-Stonewall years; and highlights today's most legendary out-gay pop stars.
ISBN:
9781468315592

9780715651926
Physical Description:
358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: Once upon a time in a disco far, far away... -- David Bowie made me gay -- Pretty baby -- Bull dyker blues -- The pansy craze -- Europe before the war -- Strange fruit -- Camp records -- Do you come here often? -- Electronic sounds -- After Stonewall -- Living with lesbians -- Lavender country -- Can't stop the music -- The 1970s: political and pink -- The aggressive style punk rock -- The 1980s: small town boys -- Hope and homophobia -- Scandal -- Out and proud in the twenty-first century.
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