Queer Noises by John Gill
Queer Noises | John Gill | British music critic John Gill has penned a tell-all tome, although he’s careful not to out anyone who hasn’t already left clues waiting to be pieced
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Broken Horses by Carlile Brandi
Carlile Brandi | Broken Horses | ‘Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving fr
Blues Legacies And Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis
Angela Y. Davis | Blues Legacies And Black Feminism | From one of this country’s most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial b
An Army of Lovers by Jamie Anderson
Jamie Anderson | An Army of Lovers | In California, a month before the Stonewall Riots in 1969, Maxine Feldman penned a song, “Angry Atthis,” about the shame surrounding lesbians. She did
Babe: An Olympian Musical by Carolyn Gage
Carolyn Gage | Babe: An Olympian Musical | Big, brassy, full-cast mainstage musical about the greatest woman athlete in history, Babe Didrikson! Babe’s struggle for acceptance. Numbers include
Queering the Pitch by Philip Brett; Elizabeth Wood; Gary C. Thomas
Philip Brett; Elizabeth Wood; Gary C. Thomas | Queering the Pitch | The first collection of gay and lesbian work in musicology. Contributors cover a wide range of subjects from analysis of the work of gay composers to
Adventures in Women’s Music by Alix Dobkin
Alix Dobkin | Adventures in Women’s Music | Written by a major pioneering figure in the women’s music movement. Dobkin performed with Kay Gardner and other women in the early 1970s before she re
Bessie by Chris Albertson
Chris Albertson | Bessie | A biography of Bessie Smith, the great singer known as the ‘Empress of the Blues’. Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time, Bes
Melissa Etheridge: Our Little Secret by Joyce Luck
Joyce Luck | Melissa Etheridge: Our Little Secret | Carefully researched, filled with numerous anecdotes collected from fans and with insights gathered from Etheridge’s friends and colleagues, Our Littl
Dancing With Demons by Penny Valentine; Vicki Wickham
Penny Valentine; Vicki Wickham | Dancing With Demons | As a child, in a desperate effort to get the attention of her parents, Mary O’Brien would place her hands on the boiler until they burned. As an adult