Queer Blues
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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.
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.