Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

Just noticed @jack_hamilton followed. His "Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination" is one of the most important books on popular music and will definitely be on that "Essential List" I keep promising to make y'all. https://t.co/qn8gN7IQUe https://t.co/BayzqUsEIs

Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

Don't know why I'm thinking abt holiday gift-giving today, but this has been a great year for fashion books. I highly recommend these for you and/or a stylishly inclined loved one. Anna x @amyodell https://t.co/kU7E0mHOeB A Visible Man x Edward Enninful https://t.co/smT8MfTYde https://t.co/gKoZuMU5sx

Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

Just got hardcover copy. Can’t overstate how much I love this book; how much I learned; how funny it is; how deeply researched; how the characters come alive & are multidimensional; and how it’s so well-crafted. Queer Book Of The Summer ☀️ https://bookshop.org/a/21066/9781982115791… @NicolePasulka

Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

James Baldwin, Phyllis Hyman, Sylvester, Larry Levan, Cissy Houston, her daughter Whitney, Luther Vandross, Labelle: my Pride podcast guest, singer Marc Sadane, has stories about them all! This episode is really special. Check it out https://t.co/rR1vcJWpaY #Pride2022 https://t.co/f6Vc73AXeo

Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

Thanks. Yes, I’m very familiar w/ bell hooks’ critique of Madonna. Think I read it first in a magazine, then again when Black Looks dropped. It became a model for the type of cultural criticism I wanted to write. https://t.co/pcwyEY8Kb8 https://t.co/bsr2h1hadb

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Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

@DanKelly72 Oh yeah, I know. And the early stuff—Divine, Dead Or Alive—was more influenced by the Euro Hi-NRG sound. I’m talking about SAW’s house period, which, again, I enjoyed much of it. (A fave 👇🏽) I didn’t know about the Trax stuff until I read Hillegonda Rietveld’s This Is Our House.… https://t.co/7dFjtKOnZz

Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

Just noticed @jack_hamilton followed. His "Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination" is one of the most important books on popular music and will definitely be on that "Essential List" I keep promising to make y'all. https://bookshop.org/a/21066/9780674416598 https://t.co/BayzqUsEIs

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Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

THAT is my fave too. Bugs the h-ll out of me when Giovanni’s Room is chosen as James Baldwin’s “gay novel,” when Just Above My Head is right there, dealing w/ queerness in the context of Blackness. Grew up looking at this version on my parents’ bookshelf. It’s giving drama! https://t.co/9YpPQ0A6P8 https://t.co/4hbtY8e6mK

Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

#NowReading Andrew Holleran's The Kingdom Of Sand. It's devastating me w/ every word in the most beautiful way. He writes my ❤️ Also, Dancer From The Dance is one of the best novels to capture the early days of disco. Here's an interview w/ him on the era https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/11/interview-andrew-holleran https://t.co/QYKfzoKOc5

Craig Seymour, Black Gay Music Critic

#NowReading Andrew Holleran's The Kingdom Of Sand. It's devastating me w/ every word in the most beautiful way. He writes my ❤️ Also, Dancer From The Dance is one of the best novels to capture the early days of disco. Here's an interview w/ him on the era https://t.co/6fv0Gsm55i https://t.co/QYKfzoKOc5