The B-52s' Cosmic Thing

The B-52s were always queer, though not overtly, and this book dissects the coded queer messaging in the B-52s music, using Cosmic Thing as a launching point. Alongside the authors own queer awakening, this book looks at what was obvious all along - the B-52s aren''t just pop culture icons, they are queer history. The B-52s fifth record Cosmic Thing took the world by storm in 1989 in the wake of the band''s single greatest tragedy: losing guitarist Ricky Wilson to complications from AIDS in 1985. Cosmic Thing is a celebration of queer joy in the face of that seismic setback. Not only did the B-52s have to fight through their pain and grief to make Cosmic Thing , they were up against a conservative government under Reagan (then Bush), a misunderstood virus still ravaging the queer community and the expectations of what ''serious'' artists were supposed to look like.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Pete Crighton
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.09.2025
• EAN: 9798765133125
• ISBN: 9798765133125
• Seiten: 136
• Abmessung: 120 mm x 164 mm x 10 mm
• Serie: 33 1/3
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Monografien; Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, New Wave, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, United States of America, USA, Pop Music, Gay & Lesbian studies, Music reviews & criticism, Punk, New Wave & Indie, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Music reviews and criticism, c 1980 to c 1989, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Relating to LGBTQIA+ people