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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798678203321

Autore

Smith Richard <1968->

Titolo

Seduced and abandoned : essays on gay men and popular music / / Richard Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Cassell, , 1995

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

0-304-33347-6

1-4742-8699-2

1-4742-8698-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Bloomsbury academic collections. Gender studies

Disciplina

782.4216408664

781.64086642

Soggetti

Homosexuality and music

Sex in music

Gay musicians

Theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Andy Medhurst -- The Acid Queen: Mixmaster Morris -- Ambisexuality -- Baby Don't Apologize: Nirvana -- Back in the YMCA: Village People -- Bad?: Michael Jackson -- Being Boring: Erasure -- Blaming it on the Boogie: Stock, Aitken and Waterman -- Cock Rock: The Secret History of the Penis in Pop --

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--