Cowley Patrick
Cowley Patrick - Mechanical Fantasy Box The Homoerotic Journal Of Patrick Cowley - Paperback
Cowley Patrick - Mechanical Fantasy Box The Homoerotic Journal Of Patrick Cowley - Paperback
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Description: Chronicles of sex and disco in 70s San Francisco from the revolutionary musician behind You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) Patrick Cowley (1950 82) was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo Cowley moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study music at the City College of San Francisco. By the mid '70s his synthesizer techniques landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco diva Sylvester including hits such as " You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)." Cowley created his own brand of peak - time party music known as Hi - NRG dubbed "the San Francisco Sound." His life was cut short on November 12, 1982, when he died shortly after his 32nd birthday from AIDS - related illness. Mechanical Fantasy Box is Cowley's homoerotic journal or as he called it "graphic accounts of one man's sex life." The journal begins in 1974 and ends in 1980 on his 30th birthday. It chronicles his slow rise to fame from lighting technician at the City Disco to crafting his ground - breaking 16 - minute remix of Donna Summer's " I Feel Love" to performing with Sylvester at the SF Opera House. Vivid descriptions are told of cruising in '70s So M a sex venues ecstatic highs in Buena Vista Park and composing "pornophonics" in his Castro apartment. For this book artist Gwena l Rattke created 25 original illustrations inspired by selected entries three street maps documenting locations mentioned herein and four collages of photos ephemera and notes that Cowley had inserted in the journal. This book shows a very out - front alive person going through the throes of gay liberation post - Stonewall.
Title: Mechanical Fantasy Box The Homoerotic Journal Of Patrick Cowley
Author(s): Cowley Patrick, Gwenael Rattke
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers
Barcode: 9781942884545
Pages: 128 Pages, 36 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 11/26/2019
Category: Anthologies (Non-Poetry)
Description: Chronicles of sex and disco in 70s San Francisco from the revolutionary musician behind You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) Patrick Cowley (1950 82) was one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in electronic dance music. Born in Buffalo Cowley moved to San Francisco in 1971 to study music at the City College of San Francisco. By the mid '70s his synthesizer techniques landed him a job composing and producing songs for disco diva Sylvester including hits such as " You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)." Cowley created his own brand of peak - time party music known as Hi - NRG dubbed "the San Francisco Sound." His life was cut short on November 12, 1982, when he died shortly after his 32nd birthday from AIDS - related illness. Mechanical Fantasy Box is Cowley's homoerotic journal or as he called it "graphic accounts of one man's sex life." The journal begins in 1974 and ends in 1980 on his 30th birthday. It chronicles his slow rise to fame from lighting technician at the City Disco to crafting his ground - breaking 16 - minute remix of Donna Summer's " I Feel Love" to performing with Sylvester at the SF Opera House. Vivid descriptions are told of cruising in '70s So M a sex venues ecstatic highs in Buena Vista Park and composing "pornophonics" in his Castro apartment. For this book artist Gwena l Rattke created 25 original illustrations inspired by selected entries three street maps documenting locations mentioned herein and four collages of photos ephemera and notes that Cowley had inserted in the journal. This book shows a very out - front alive person going through the throes of gay liberation post - Stonewall.
Title: Mechanical Fantasy Box The Homoerotic Journal Of Patrick Cowley
Author(s): Cowley Patrick, Gwenael Rattke
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers
Barcode: 9781942884545
Pages: 128 Pages, 36 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 11/26/2019
Category: Anthologies (Non-Poetry)
