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DAVID BOWIE MADE ME GAY
100 years of LGBT music
The definitive book revealing the influence of LGBT writers/ performers on the history and evolution of modern music
The most comprehensive book on the subject for the general reader
2017 is the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK
Featured artists: David Bowie, Janis Joplin, George Michael, Pete Burns, Boy George, Billie Holiday, Freddie Mercury, The Scissor Sisters, and many others
Includes interviews with pioneering LGBT+ activists and musicians, e.g. Paul Rutherford and Tom Robinson
From Sia to Elton John, Dusty Springfield to Little Richard, LGBT voices have changed the course of modern music. But in a world before they gained understanding and a place in the mainstream, how did the queer musicians of yesteryear fight to build foundations for those who would come after them?
Pulling back the curtain on the colourful legacy that has shaped all of our musical and cultural landscape, music aficionado and writer Darryl W. Bullock reveals the inspiring and often heart-breaking stories of internationally renowned stars, as well as numerous lesser-known names that have driven the revolution from all corners of the globe: those whose personal stories against the threat of persecution during decades of political and historical turmoil including two world wars, Stonewall and the AIDS crisis has led to some of the most significant and soul-searching music of the last century. Bullock chronicles these struggles through new interviews and archival reports, dating from the birth of jazz in the red-light district of New Orleans, through the rock n' roll years, Swinging Sixties and all-singing and all-dancing disco days of the 70s, right up to modern pop, electronica and reggae.
A treasure-trove of untold histories, David Bowie Made Me Gay is a moving and provocative story of the right to be heard and the need to keep the fight for equality in the spotlight.
Described as a veritable Bard of the bent, broken and Baroque' by Andy Partridge (XTC), Darryl W. Bullock is a writer, publisher and editor specialising in music and the arts. He has been profiled in the Guardian, Sunday Times and Gay Times and has featured on BBC One (The Big Questions), C4 (Come Dine With Me) as well as numerous local and national radio and TV programmes in the UK. Bullock is the author of Florence Foster Jenkins: the Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer (published by Duckworth in 2016). He posts weekly on his popular blog called The World's Worst Records: http://worldsworstrecords.blogspot.ca/
2017 is the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK
Featured artists: David Bowie, Janis Joplin, George Michael, Pete Burns, Boy George, Billie Holiday, Freddie Mercury, The Scissor Sisters, and many others
Includes interviews with pioneering LGBT+ activists and musicians, e.g. Paul Rutherford and Tom Robinson
From Sia to Elton John, Dusty Springfield to Little Richard, LGBT voices have changed the course of modern music. But in a world before they gained understanding and a place in the mainstream, how did the queer musicians of yesteryear fight to build foundations for those who would come after them?
Pulling back the curtain on the colourful legacy that has shaped all of our musical and cultural landscape, music aficionado and writer Darryl W. Bullock reveals the inspiring and often heart-breaking stories of internationally renowned stars, as well as numerous lesser-known names that have driven the revolution from all corners of the globe: those whose personal stories against the threat of persecution during decades of political and historical turmoil including two world wars, Stonewall and the AIDS crisis has led to some of the most significant and soul-searching music of the last century. Bullock chronicles these struggles through new interviews and archival reports, dating from the birth of jazz in the red-light district of New Orleans, through the rock n' roll years, Swinging Sixties and all-singing and all-dancing disco days of the 70s, right up to modern pop, electronica and reggae.
A treasure-trove of untold histories, David Bowie Made Me Gay is a moving and provocative story of the right to be heard and the need to keep the fight for equality in the spotlight.
Described as a veritable Bard of the bent, broken and Baroque' by Andy Partridge (XTC), Darryl W. Bullock is a writer, publisher and editor specialising in music and the arts. He has been profiled in the Guardian, Sunday Times and Gay Times and has featured on BBC One (The Big Questions), C4 (Come Dine With Me) as well as numerous local and national radio and TV programmes in the UK. Bullock is the author of Florence Foster Jenkins: the Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer (published by Duckworth in 2016). He posts weekly on his popular blog called The World's Worst Records: http://worldsworstrecords.blogspot.ca/
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Published 2017-09-01 by Duckworth |