The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco

Type

Book

Authors

Joshua Gamson

ISBN 10

0312425694

ISBN 13

9780312425692

Tags

Dance, Actors & Entertainers, Composers & Musicians, Ethnic & National, Humor & Entertainment, Gay, State & Local, Popular Culture, Gay & Lesbian

Description

Imagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a liberation where nothing was straight-laced or old-fashioned. And everyone, finally, was welcome--to come as themselves. This is not a fairy tale. This was real, mighty real, and disco-sensation Sylvester was the piper.Yale-trained sociologist Joshua Gamson uses Sylvester's life to lead us through the story of the 1970s, when a generation took off its shame. Celebrity, sociology, and music history mingle in this endlessly entertaining story of a singer who embodied the freedom, spirit, and flamboyance of a golden moment in American culture. - from Amzon

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