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Camp!
- Author
- Paul Baker
- Narrator
- Paul Baker
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 5 September 2023
- Run Time
- 10 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Paul Baker's highly anticipated reappraisal of camp surveys its touchstones across history and the changing ways that it has been understood. He traces the history of camp from the courts of Louis XIV and trials of Oscar Wilde to the archetypical dandy Beau Brummell and the celebrated playwright Noel Coward; from The Valley of the Dolls, Harlem's drag balls, and Brazilian telenovelas through to the modern day divas of Donna Summer, Madonna, and Britney Spears.
Celebrating camp as an aesthetic, a sensibility, and a way of life, this essential dive into an often-derided phenomenon, shows how camp has been a place of refuge and renewal, of heroism and hedonism, and how it is more powerful than ever.
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Details
- Author
- Paul Baker
- Narrator
- Paul Baker
- Duration
- 10 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 September 2023
- ISBN
- 9798350844061
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Western philosophy from c 1800, Popular culture, LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies
Synopsis
Fabulously unrestrained and ever-evolving, camp has captured the cultural imagination for at least 150 years. The term possibly derives from the French se camper, meaning to pose in a bold, provocative, or exaggerated fashion. Frequently used to define or deride young heterosexual men, the upper classes, Black people, older women, and gay men, camp has also played a key role in equality movements.Paul Baker's highly anticipated reappraisal of camp surveys its touchstones across history and the changing ways that it has been understood. He traces the history of camp from the courts of Louis XIV and trials of Oscar Wilde to the archetypical dandy Beau Brummell and the celebrated playwright Noel Coward; from The Valley of the Dolls, Harlem's drag balls, and Brazilian telenovelas through to the modern day divas of Donna Summer, Madonna, and Britney Spears.Celebrating camp as an aesthetic, a sensibility, and a way of life, this essential dive into an often-derided phenomenon, shows how camp has been a place of refuge and renewal, of heroism and hedonism, and how it is more powerful than ever.
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