Seduced and abandoned : essays on gay men and popular music /
"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 Ki...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. |
| Series: | Bloomsbury academic collections. Gender studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 The Acid Queen: Mixmaster Morris; 3 Ambisexuality; 4 Baby Don't Apologize: Nirvana; 5 Back in the YMCA: Village People; 6 Bad?: Michael Jackson; 7 Being Boring: Erasure; 8 Blaming it on the Boogie: Stock, Aitken and Waterman; 9 Cock Rock: The Secret History of the Penis in Pop; 10 Dear Shaun: Happy Mondays; 11 Dragged into the Future: Trannies With Attitude; 12 Getting Away with It: Right Said Fred; 13 The God that Failed?: Morrissey
- 14 Godfathers and Sugar daddies: Tom Watkins15 The Happy Wanderer: Jimmy Somerville; 16 Homo Psycho Sexy Burlesque: My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult; 17 Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Pop and AIDS; 18 The House That Frankie Built: Frankie Knuckles; 19 Housewives' Choice: Female Fans and Unmanly Men; 20 I'm Not Like Everybody Else: The Kinks; 21 Just Good Friends?: Take That; 22 Kerrang! The Sound of Confusion: Heavy Metal; 23 Let's (Not) Talk About Sex: Sex, Pop and Censorship; 24 Little Town Flirt: Suede; 25 The London Boy: Colin Bell; 26 Murmuring: REM; 27 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 Preachers; 30 Pink Vinyl: Gay Dance Labels and Nu-NRG; 31 Preaching to the Perverted: Homocore and Queer core; 32 The Queen of New York: RuPaul; 33 Relaxed: Holly Johnson; 34 The Rhythm Divine: Jon Savage and Disco; 35 Seriously: Pet Shop Boys; 36 This Charming Man: Gene; 37 Three Little Words: Pet Shop Boys; 38 Us Boys Together Clinging: One Night in a Gay Club; 39 What Do We Want?: 2wo Third3; 40 A Year in the Death of Freddie Mercury: Queen; Afterwords; Selected Bibliography