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

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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Joshua GamsonPublish date:2006-01-24Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312425692ISBN-10:312425694UPC:9780312425692Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Music, Cultural, Ethnic & RegionalSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCTRBGGA2J

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312425692ISBN-10:312425694UPC:9780312425692Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Music, Cultural, Ethnic & RegionalSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCTRBGGA2J

Joshua Gamson teaches at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity and Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America. He lives in Oakland, California.


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