The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage

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The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage

Includes book plate signed by Jon!

Published: 6 June, 2024
Hardback. 752 pages

Faber & Faber

A monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on pop- ular culture, from the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage

An electrifying look at key moments in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979. From the secret sexuality of stars such as Little Richard in the 1950s through to the ambiguity of David Bowie, glam rock and Sylvester’s ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’. Jon Savage reflects on the figures and events that helped move gay culture from the margins to the main- stream and changed the face of pop forever.

The Secret Public is a searching examination of the fortitude and resilience of the gay community through the lens of popular music and culture; it reflects on the freedom found in divergence from the norm and reminds us of the need to be vigilant against those seeking to roll back the rights of marginalised groups.

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Jon Savage is the author of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth, 1875-1945. He is the writer of the award-winning film documentaries The Brian Epstein Story (1988) and Joy Division (2007), as well as the feature film Teenage (2013). His compilations include Meridian 1970 (Heavenly 2005) and Queer Noises: From the Closet to the Charts, 1961-1976 (Trikont 2006)

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