The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco

The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San FranciscoImagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a 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. Yale trained sociologist Joshua Gamson uses Sylvester's life to lead us through the story of the 1970s,

Imagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a 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.

Yale-trained sociologist Joshua Gamson uses Sylvester's life to lead us through the story of the 1970s, when a generation took off its shame. Celebrity, sociology, and music history mingle in this endlessly entertaining story of a singer who embodied the freedom, spirit, and flamboyance of a golden moment in American culture.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 01/24/2006
ISBN: 9780312425692
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d