Breaking down the walls of heartache
Subtitle: how music came out
By: Martin Aston
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 573
ISBN-13: 9781617136528
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Homosexuality and popular music; Gay musicians; Popular music; Gender identity in music; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The art of secrecy, the sound of lavender - The twenties -̕Tai̕nt nobod̕ys business if I d̕o : Sissies, bull-dykers and freakish man blues; title: The thirties - the age of the pansy craze; title: The forties - war games and Nancy boys; title: The fifties - the tutti frutti revolution; title: The sixties - gay party Pop and the Roc̕k̕nRoll closet; title: The seventies - Let the children boogie; title: The seventies II - Disco, Punk and out come the freaks; title: The eighties - All the nice boys love sea men - Pop comes out; title: The nineties - Roc̕k n̕  Roll - Queer to the core; title: Twenty-first century - A rainbow riot.