David bowie made me gay book
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music
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LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community's battle for acceptance. With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded tune by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the evolution of the song we listen to today.David Bowie Made Me Homosexual uncovers the lives of the people who made these records, and applications a lively canter through the scarcely documented history of LGBT music-makers. Darryl W. Bullock discusses how gay, lesbian, and pansexual performers influenced Jazz and Blues; examines the almost forgotten Pansy Craze in the years between the two World Wars (when many LGBT performers were fêted by royalty and Hollywood alike); chronicles the dark years after the depression when gay being was driven deep underground; celebrates the re-emergence of LGBT performers in the post-Stonewall
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music
Author: Darryl W. Bullock
Paperback|New
The definitive book on the influence of LGBT performers on modern music. (372 pages)
From Sia to Elton John, Dusty Springfield to Small Richard, LGBT voices have changed the course of up-to-date music. But in a world before they gained comprehending and a place in the mainstream, how did the queer musicians of yesteryear fight to build foundations for those who came after? Pulling help the curtain on the colourful planet that shaped our musical and cultural landscape, Darryl W. Bullock reveals the inspiring and often heartbreaking stories of internationally renowned stars, as well as lesser-known names, who have led the revolution from all corners of the globe. David Bowie Made Me Gay is a treasure trove of moving and provocative stories that emphasise the right to be heard and the need to store up the clash for equality in the spotlight.
ISBN: 9780715654927| Publisher: Duckworth Books (UK)| Published: 2023
Category: LGBTQ+, Music
David Bowie Made Me Queer : 100 Years of LGBT Music
From the birth of jazz in the red-light district of Recent Orleans, through the rock 'n' roll years, Swinging Sixties and all-singing and all dancing disco days of the '70s, to modern pop, electronica and reggae the LGBT group has played a vital role in modern music.
At the turn of the twentieth century, recording technology for the first period brought the messages of LGBT artists from the cabaret stage into the homes of millions. Their personal struggle and 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.
Through exclusive brand-new interviews and contemporary reports, Bullock pulls back the curtain on the colourful legacy that has shaped our musical and cultural landscape, revealing the inspiring and often heartbreaking stories of internationally renowned LGBT artists from Billie Holiday and Dusty Springfield to Frankie Goes to Hollywood and George Michael and of numerous lesser-known names that have driven the revolution from all corners of the globe.
A treasure
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music
Thoughts: I am deeply conflicted about this book. On the one hand, it’s an important document, in that I haven’t seen anyone tackle the topic and there’s a lot to be learned and a lot to be inspired by. On the other, Bullock is writing from an older and less than current sympathetic of some queer identities (see warnings below) and outright omits any gender non-conforming identity that isn’t L, G, B, or T. On the third, the book frequently gets bogged down in details such as record sales; assumes nerd level knowledge by, say, mentioning genres without defining them or assuming you know that band; and is just poorly edited enough that it can be hard to track who’s doing what to who when.
Oh, and if you’re looking for major icons like Bowie, Mercury, and John, they’re footnotes. I personally am okay with this because they have their hold bios and the guide largely exists to raise lesser known people into the limelight, but at the same time, I was disappointed that they featured as little as they did because th