Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music - A Guardian Best Book of 2023

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Darryl W Bullock

Queer Blues

The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music - A Guardian Best Book of 2023

Darryl W Bullock

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Omnibus Press
06 July 2023

Jazz; Blues

From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s saw the release of dozens of raunchy, bawdy blues recordings aimed at a knowing LGBTQ audience.

Queer Blues tells the story of the pioneering LGBTQ composers and entertainers that wrote, performed and recorded these wonderfully outlandish, life-affirming songs and chronicles, including: Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Josephine Baker to Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon and many more.

This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from the award-winning Darryl W. Bullock.

By: Darryl W Bullock
Imprint: Omnibus Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781913172527
ISBN 10: 191317252X
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 06 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Darryl W. Bullock is a writer specialising in music history and LGBTQ issues. He is the author of several books, including Pride, Pop and Politics: Music, Theatre and LGBT Activism 1970-2021, The Velvet Mafia: The Gay Men Who Ran the Swinging Sixties which won the 2022 Penderyn Music Book Prize, David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music and two volumes culled from his blog and internet radio show, The World’s Worst Records. He lives in Bristol with a dog, two cats, an incredibly patient husband and a ridiculously eclectic record collection.

Reviews for Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music - A Guardian Best Book of 2023

'Darryl W. Bullock excavates and celebrates the fantabulous intersection of Blues and Queer Culture, highlighting racial struggles, explosive joy and creativity. I love this book!' Simon Doonan 'Meticulously researched and rich in detail, Queer Blues is fabulous in its debunking of myths and righting of wrongs' 4**** Mojo