Seduced and Abandoned

Essays on Gay Men and Popular Music

AvRichard Smith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Smith examines the different ways in which gay men use pop music, both as producers and consumers, and how, in turn, pop uses gay men. He asks what role culture plays in shaping identity and why pop continues to thrill gay men. These 40 essays and interviews look at how performers, from The Kinks’ Ray Davies to Gene’s Martin Rossiter, have used pop as a platform to explore and articulate, conform to or contest notions of sexuality and gender. A defence of cultural differences and an attack on cultural elitism, Seduced and Abandoned is as passionate and provocative as pop itself.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-10-06
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:537 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474286978

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Richard Smith writes about gay men and the media and is a former editor of Gay Times.

Innehållsförteckning

About the AuthorAcknowledgementsForeword by Andy Medhurst1 Introduction2 The Acid Queen: Mixmaster Morris3 Ambisexuality4 Baby Don’t Apologize: Nirvana5 Back in the YMCA: Village People6 Bad?: Michael Jackson7 Being Boring: Erasure8 Blaming it on the Boogie: Stock, Aitken and Waterman9 Cock Rock: The Secret History of the Penis in Pop10 Dear Shaun: Happy Mondays11 Dragged into the Future: Trannies With Attitude12 Getting Away with It: Right Said Fred13 The God that Failed?: Morrissey14 Godfathers and Sugardaddies: Tom Watkins15 The Happy Wanderer: Jimmy Somerville16 Homo Psycho Sexy Burlesque: My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult17 Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Pop and AIDS18 The House That Frankie Built: Frankie Knuckles19 Housewives' Choice: Female Fans and Unmanly Men20 I'm Not Like Everybody Else: The Kinks21 Just Good Friends?: Take That22 Kerrang! The Sound of Confusion: Heavy Metal23 Let's (Not) Talk About Sex: Sex, Pop and Censorship24 Little Town Flirt: Suede25 The London Boy: Colin Bell26 Murmuring: REM27 The Odd Couple: McAlmont (Thieves)28 Out On Your Own: Kitchens of Distinction and Sugar29 'Outrage and Boredom Just Go Hand in Hand': Manic Street Preachers30 Pink Vinyl: Gay Dance Labels and Nu-NRG31 Preaching to the Perverted: Homocore and Queercore32 The Queen of New York: RuPaul33 Relaxed: Holly Johnson34 The Rhythm Divine: Jon Savage and Disco35 Seriously: Pet Shop Boys3 6 This Charming Man: Gene37 Three Little Words: Pet Shop Boys38 Us Boys Together Clinging: One Night in a Gay Club39 What Do We Want?: 2wo Third340 A Year in the Death of Freddie Mercury: QueenAfterwordsSelected BibliographyIndex