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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: fabulous Sylvester
    sub title: the legend, the music, the seventies in San Francisco
  name:
    name part: Gamson, Joshua
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: Biography.
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2005
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  abstract: A journey back through the music, madness, and unparalleled freedom of an era of change-the '70s-as told through the life of ultra-fabulous superstar Sylvester. Imagine a pied piper singing in a dazzling falsetto, wearing glittering sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to 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. Joshua Gamson-a Yale-trained pop culture expert-uses him, a boy who would be fabulous, to lead us through the story of the '70s when a new era of change liberated us from conformity and boredom. Gamson captures the exuberant life, feeling, energy, and fun of a generation's wonderful, magical waking up-from the parties to the dancing and music. The story begins with a little black boy who started with nothing but a really big voice. We follow him from the Gospel chorus to the glory days in the Castro where a generation shook off its shame as Sylvester sang and began his rise as part of a now-notorious theatrical troup called the Cockettes. Celebrity, sociology, and music history mingle and merge around this endlessly entertaining story of a singer who embodied the freedom, spirit, and flamboyance of a golden moment in American culture.
  note: Joshua Gamson.
  note: Includes index.
  note: The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
  note: American Library Association Stonewall Book Award, 2006
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-us-ca
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sylvester
      name part: 1947-1988
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sylvester
      name part: 1947-1988
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sylvester
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sylvester
      name part: 1947-1988
  subject:
    topic: Singers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Gay singers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Disco musicians
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Disco music
    geographic: California
    geographic: San Francisco
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Disco music
  subject:
    topic: Disco musicians
  subject:
    topic: Singers
  subject:
    geographic: California
    geographic: San Francisco
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Popmusik
  subject:
    topic: Geschichte
  subject:
    geographic: San Francisco (Calif.)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: San Francisco
  classification: ML420.S9815 G36 2005
  classification: 782.42164/092
  classification: B
  classification: 9,2
  classification: LS 48000
  classification: LS 48040
  identifier: 0805072500
  identifier: 9780805072501
  identifier: 2004042380
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 040824
    record change date: 20210125091045.0
    record identifier: in00004277796
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng