David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W Bullock

David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W Bullock

From Sia to Elton John, from Billie Holiday to David Bowie, LGBT musicians have changed the course of modern music. But before their music—and the messages behind it—gained understanding 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 music of the last century. Bullock chronicles these struggles through new interviews and archival reports, dating from the birth of jazz in the red-light district of New Orleans, through the rock ‘n’ roll years, Swinging Sixties, and disco days of the ’70s, right up to modern pop, electronica, and reggae. An entertaining treasure-trove of untold history for all music lovers, David Bowie Made Me Gay is an inspiring, nostalgic, and provocative story of right to be heard and the need to keep the fight for equality in the spotlight.

Darryl W. Bullock is a writer, publisher, and editor specialising in music and the arts. He has written for publications including The Guardian, Pitchfork, the Quietus, Songwriting Magazine, The Bath Chronicle, Venue, Folio, The Spark, B24-7, 3Sixty, The Bath Magazine, the Bristol Evening Post, and The Western Daily Press. He is also the publisher of The Green Guide to Bristol and Bath. Darryl is the author of The World's Worst Records (Volumes 1 and 2), Florence Foster Jenkins: the Life of the World's Worst Opera Singer (Duckworth-Overlook, 2016), and David Bowie Made Me Gay. His next book, The Infamous Cherry Sisters, will be issued in December 2018.

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ISBN 13	9781468316919
ISBN 10	1468316915
Title	David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music
Author	Darryl W Bullock
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Overlook Press
Year published	2019-04-30
Number of pages	368
Prizes	Winner of American Library Association’s “Over the Rainbow” list 2018 (United States)
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