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The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312425692)
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xImagine 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.Author: Joshua Gamson
ISBN-10: 0312425694
ISBN-13: 9780312425692
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2006
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
By Joshua Gamson
xJoshua 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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