Seduced and Abandoned
Essays on Gay Men and Popular Music
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Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100304333476
- ISBN-139780304333479
- LibraryThing402408
- OCLC Control Number34118868
- Open LibraryOL9346554M
Classifications
- DDC782.4216408664
Description
Seduced and Abandoned examines the different ways that gay men use pop music, both as producers and consumers, and how, in turn, pop uses gay men. Richard Smith asks what role culture plays in shaping identity, and why pop continues to thrill gay men even though it so often lets them down. 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. Some of these pieces are love letters (Nirvana, Take That); others hate mail (Erasure, Happy Mondays). Some figures keep reappearing - Madonna, Morrissey, Pet Shop Boys, 'Ziggy Stardust' and Suede; as do certain themes - AIDS, 'ambisexuality', camp, 'homosexualness', unmanliness, why dance music means so much to gay men though rock often says more about their lives, and how we read the stars and our desire to 'know' them.
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