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"This revealing and timely book is a must-have for anyone passionate about music. 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 struggle for acceptance worldwide. With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time transferred from the cabaret stage and brought to the homes of millions. David Bowie Made Me Gay is...
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"Madame Jenkins couldn't carry a tune in a bucket: despite that, in 1944 at the age of 76, she played Carnegie Hall to a capacity audience and had celebrity fans by the score. Her infamous 1940s recordings are still highly-prized today. In his well-researched and thoroughly entertaining biography, Darryl W. Bullock tells of Florence Foster Jenkins meteoric rise to success and the man who stood beside her, through every sharp note. Florence was ridiculed...
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During the 1920s and 30s, many of the biggest stars of the time--including Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, Porter Grainger, Josephine Baker, Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon, Lucille Bogan, Tony Jackson and Clara Smith--were openly celebrating LGBTQ lives through the songs they wrote, performed and recorded. Award-winning author Darryl W. Bullock brings their stories to the fore through contemporary reports, interviews, news articles...
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Pride, Pop and Politics charts the development of gay culture and the rise of LGBTQ politics in the UK, from the formation of the Gay Liberation Front to the present day, through the music that provided the soundtrack.
Fifty years on from Britain's first Pride march, the long road to LGBT equality continues. Through protest songs and gay club nights, street theatre activism and fundraising concerts, the performing arts have played an influential...
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In the fifties and sixties, in the period leading up to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and the founding of the Gay Liberation movement, a group of gay men behind the scenes of rock'n'roll was changing pop, politics and society for good.
Through a mix of new interviews and contemporary reports, Darryl W. Bullock shines a light on the lives of the so-called 'Velvet Mafia', including impresario Larry Parnes, Beatles manager Brian Epstein,...
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Marlene Dietrich, Billie Holliday, Freddie Mercury, Little Richard... David Bowie me hizo gay nos habla de la influencia de los artistas LGTB en el nacimiento del jazz y el blues; examina el casi olvidado Pansy Craze del periodo de entreguerras, donde las salvajes fiestas drag de los años 30 iniciaron la vida nocturna gay; la expansiva era Weimar, el ambiente bohemio de las grandes ciudades como París, Berlín, Londres y Nueva York antes de que...
