Pete Crighton

The B-52s' Cosmic Thing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 121mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765133125
• Artikelnr.: 72234956

Autorenporträt

Pete Crighton

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Deadbeat Club'
The early years 2. 'Dance This Mess Around'
Early successes and fame 3. 'Deep Sleep'
Things go a bit off the rails 4. 'Cosmic Thing'
Like Lazarus, the B
52s rise from the dead 5. 'Keep This Party Going'
A complicated legacy