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Welcome to our latest author Q&A, where we chat to the writers behind new and upcoming 33 1/3 books! Today Pete Crighton introduces his addition to the 33 1/3 series: Cosmic Thing, an album that solidified The B-52s as icons of pop culture and queerness.
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This week we’ve published three new books across our 33 1/3 series: Various Artists’ Red Hot + Blue, Einstürzende Neubauten’s Kollaps (33 1/3 Europe) and the Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever (33 1/3 Oceania). Like the rest of the books in the series, each one is a deep dive into a cherished album written from a unique, personal perspective.
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Released in 1990, Red Hot + Blue was the music industry’s first major response to the AIDS epidemic. In today’s blog post, John S. Garrison discusses why it made sense to choose Cole Porter as the focus of the groundbreaking album.
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Welcome to our latest author Q&A, where we chat to the writers behind new and upcoming 33 1/3 books! Ahead of its publication, author John S. Garrison talks about Various Artists’ Red Hot + Blue. Specifically he delves into what this album meant to him as someone coming of age — and coming out as gay — in the early 90s, as well as the record’s significance today.
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Welcome to our latest author Q&A, where we chat to the writers behind new and upcoming 33 1/3 books! Today C.C. McKee talks to us about Aqua’s rapid rise to fame and why she chose to write about these Danish Eurodance icons for her 33 1/3 book. How would you describe your book in one
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Upon its release in 1997, Aqua’s Aquarium became an instant classic for many queer music-lovers. In today’s blog post, C.C. McKee explores ‘Aqua’s camp approach to dance music’. It was this exploration that led McKee to create Aqualaxy, a “creative archive” of covers by contemporary queer and trans* electronic musicians. Keep reading to find out more.
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Joanna McNaney Stein reveals how k.d. lang’s Ingénue went from life-changing album to the topic of her 33 1/3 volume, out November 2nd 2023. She talks about how she came to pitch her 33 1/3 idea to us, as well as the experience of writing about an album that had such a significant impact on her.
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Welcome to our latest author Q&A, where we chat to the writers behind new and upcoming 33 1/3 books! Today Michael Dango talks to us about his addition to the series: Madonna’s Erotica. He tells us more us about the political and social context in which Erotica was released, as well as Madonna’s impact on queer theory and critical race theory.
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Manuel Betancourt on the gay iconicity of Judy Garland Judy Garland died on June 22, 1969. The Stonewall riots began on June 28, 1969. The contiguity of these two events have encouraged many since to see them as intimately tied to one another, going so far as suggesting that one caused the other. It’s a
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