Over The Rainbow: Queering The New York Dance Floor pt.1

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture

In this week's episode Tim and Jeremy begin a three-part investigation into the music, politics and social practices of the downtown gay party scene in mid-70s New York City. The guys review the historiography of homosexual sexual activities, beginning with a refresher on Michel Foucault's analysis found in his History of Sexuality. Jeremy and Tim also cover Freud and the psychoanalytic account of sexuality (heavily critiqued by Foucault), broader questions around the creation of homosexual social identity, and how thinking around sexuality developed into the Fordist era.
The episode also covers the Gay Liberation Front on both sides of the Atlantic, the influence of Feminism and Civil Rights on the GLF, the police, early 70s gay bar culture, the erasure of women in all this, Motown, jukeboxes, and Judy Garland. We end on the eve of the Stonewall Riot - in the next show, bricks get thrown.
Produced and edited by Matt Huxley.
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Tracklist:
Judy Garland - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly
The Temptations - Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down
Diana Ross & The Supremes - No Matter What Sign You Are
Books:
Michel Foucault - History of Sexuality