| The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco Contributor(s): Gamson, Joshua (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312425694 ISBN-13: 9780312425692 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: A journey back through the music, madness, and unparalleled freedom of an era of change--the '70s--as told through the life of a pied piper singing in a dazzling falsetto, wearing glittering sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Music - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Northern California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - San Francisco, California - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gamson, Joshua: - 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. |