The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture

Thoughtful delivery service

Easy 30 day returns

Certified Reviews

Description

The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular CultureA monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture, from the award winning, bestselling author Jon Savage. An electrifying look at key moments in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979, which helped move gay culture from the margins to the mainstream and changed the face of pop forever from the ambiguous sexuality of stars such as Little Richard in the 1950s through to David Bowie, glam rock and Sylvester's 'You Make Me Feel

and memories of a deeply personal kind

with apartments

dancefloor-igniting

making his earliest experiments in black and white

ever makes it alone

A 1999 interview with Visconti's cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno

and love was as simple as two words

in which the trio play tailors who find themselves caught up in criminal activities

from King David to the new players and powers of the twenty-first century

intelligent

The piece that appears on the album cover was illustrated by Seattle artist Toby Liebowitz and painted by Chris Alderson

contributing his distinctive rapping to the tracks "Karmacoma" (which features a sample from The KLF's "Dream Time in Lake Jackson" around the 2:00-minute mark

Exchange/Return Notes