{"product_id":"walters-barry-mighty-real-a-history-of-lgbtq-music-1969-2000","title":"Walters, Barry - Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000","description":"The definitive history of LGBTQ music,\nfrom Stonewall to RuPaul, and its impact\non culture and American life.\nFrom the underground dancefloors of the Seventies to the global charts\nof the Nineties, LGBTQ artists and audiences shaped music’s sound, style,\nand spirit. In MIGHTY REAL, veteran journalist Barry Walters chronicles\nits LGBTQ history from the Velvet Underground to the 21st century’s\ndawn as he honours the artists who redefined gender, defied tradition,\nand dared to challenge sexual norms with the help of a record business\nthat wasn’t as straight as commonly believed.\nDrawing on his decades as a New York- and San Francisco-based music\ncritic, Walters examines how LGBTQ musicians, music industry\nexecutives, and fans reshaped the mainstream. He connects the dots\nbetween David Bowie’s dazzling reinventions, Grace Jones’s\nandrogynous glamor, Prince’s boundary-shattering sexuality, and the\nradical candour of the Indigo Girls to prove they’re all doing the same\nthing: fighting oppression.\nWith exuberance, insight, and encyclopaedic knowledge, Walters brings\nto life the songs and society that filled dancefloors, bedrooms, and\nstreets as he uncovers yesteryear’s coded LGBTQ messages that paved\nthe way for today’s unabashedly queer hits. MIGHTY REAL is a masterful\nlove letter to the music that liberated generations, and it’s written in a\npage-turning, personal way that blurs distinctions between chronicle and\nmemoir. This is the rare and revolutionary music history told to help you\nlaugh, cry, and then rally against lingering inequality.","brand":"Viking","offers":[{"title":"Hardback Book","offer_id":51136517177622,"sku":"RMX-65252","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/5c8616f05a5a8ccb1ae0dc6afc0956d2.jpg?v=1774530667","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/walters-barry-mighty-real-a-history-of-lgbtq-music-1969-2000","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}