A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and Us Latinidad (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478018582)

In A Kiss across the Ocean Richard T. Rodr?uez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their Latinx audiences in the United States since the 1980s. Melding memoir with cultural criticism, Rodr?uez spotlights a host of influential bands and performers including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, Bauhaus, Soft Cell, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Pet Shop Boys. He recounts these bands' importance for him and other Latinx kids and discusses their frequent identification with these bands' glamorous performance of difference. Whether it was Siouxsie Sioux drawing inspiration from Latinx contemporaries and cultural practices or how Soft Cell singer Marc Almond's lyrics were attuned to the vibrancy of queer Latinidad, Rodr?uez shows how Latinx culture helped shape British post-punk. He traces the fandom networks that link these groups across space and time to illuminate how popular music establishes and facilitates intimate relations across the Atlantic. In so doing, he demonstrates how the music and styles that have come to define the 1980s hold significant sway over younger generations equally enthused by their matchlessly pleasurable and political reverberations.

Author: Richard T. Rodr?uez
ISBN-10: 1478018585
ISBN-13: 9781478018582
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2022 pg. 67