David bowie made me gay 100 years of lgbt music
Identifying and Identifying with the Thin Colorless Duke: Darryl Bullock’s “David Bowie Made Me Gay: Years of LGBT Music”
Morgan Woolsey on Darryl Bullock’s “David Bowie Made Me Gay” and the difficulties identifying exactly what “gay music” is.
David Bowie Made Me Gay by Darryl W. Bullock. The Overlook Press, pages.
THE TITLE OF Darryl W. Bullock’s latest book, David Bowie Made Me Gay: Years of LGBT Music, raises a few questions. Is this a memoir, detailing the author’s coming to terms with his control identity through the sexually protean Skinny White Duke (or Ziggy Stardust or Major Tom or Aladdin Sane or, for the more cinematically minded queer babies of my generation, the Goblin King)? If so, how will this intimate and personal narrative intersect with the promised examination of a century of LGBT music? Spoiler alert: It won’t, really. Bowie is positioned at the beginning of the book both as an emblem of the monumental boomer music losses of (Prince, Maurice White, Glenn Frey, George Martin, Leonard Cohen, Pete Burns, and George Michael, to name a few), pointing out that,
David Bowie Made Me Gay: Years of LGBT Music
Available for Special Order
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 strife for acceptance. With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first hour brought to the forefront of trendy music. David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to Bowie Made Me Gay uncovers the lives of the people who made these records, and offers a lively canter through the scarcely documented history of LGBT music-makers. Darryl W. Bullock 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 (when many LGBT performers were fêted by royalty and Hollywood alike); chronicles the dark years after the depression when gay life was driven thick underground; celebr
David Bowie Made Me Gay: Years of LGBT MusicDavid Bowie Made Me Gay: Years of LGBT Music
Bullock, Darryl k, Darryl W.
From Sia to Elton John, from Billie Holiday to David Bowie, LGBT musicians have changed the course of modern music. But before their melody - and the messages behind it - gained adj and a place in the mainstream, how did the queer musicians of yesteryear fight to build foundations for those who would follow them? David Bowie Made Me Gay is the first book to cover the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community. Darryl W. Bullock reveals the stories of both famous and lesser-known LGBT musicians, whose perseverance 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 tune of the last century. Bullock chronicles these struggles through new interviews and archival reports, dating from the birth of jazz in the red-ligh