[Dixielandjazz] Music for the gay trade

[Fred Spencer]

Dear Bill,
You seemed to have stopped it. Well done! For anyone who has an unbiased
interest in homosexuality and music, and doesn't consider it a "fun" topic,
there is a book by John Gill, which, although it has the somewhat
unfortunate title of "Queer Noises", is "a revealing yet sensitive study of
the lives of a host of performers--from Benjamin Britten and John Cage to
Bessie Smith and Janis Joplin, from Billy Strayhorn and Cecil Taylor  to
Sun Ra and the Pet Shop Boys--makes public what has always been known, that
many of this century's greatest musicians are gay. Gill also examines the
forces behind 'this code of silence'--families and relatives, managers and
business associates, journalists and critics, historians and musicologists,
and the inner workings of the music business itself." Regards.
Fred
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Biffle" <bbiffle at swcp.com>
To: "Bob Romans" <cellblk7 at comcast.net>; "glen page" <gpage at direct.ca>;
"Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net>; "DJML"
<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Music for the gay trade


> I'm not sure how this thing got started, but I think we should stop it
now.
>
> Bill Biffle
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Romans" <cellblk7 at comcast.net>
> To: "glen page" <gpage at direct.ca>; "Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net>;
> "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Music for the gay trade
>
>
> > Howabout "I Can't Give You Anything Butt Love"!!
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "glen page" <gpage at direct.ca>
> > To: "Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net>; "DJML"
> > <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Music for the gay trade
> >
> >
> > > I don't know about "a fun thread" but here are a few.
> > >
> > > Call Of The Freaks,  Russell
> > > Peculiar,  Brownlee
> > > Bottomland , Williams
> > > Queer Notions, Henderson
> > > Call Me Happy, Hines
> > > Freakish Light Blues, Oliver
> > > Got Butter On It , Parham
> > > Sweet Substitute, Morton
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net>
> > > To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:15 PM
> > > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Music for the gay trade
> > >
> > >
> > > This should be a fun thread.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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