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Camp!

The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World

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Camp!

By: Paul Baker
Narrated by: Paul Baker
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About this listen

 'My dear, she's on fire!' DAMIAN BARR
'A snappy guide to an all-conquering aesthetic' Financial Times

'The following things have seemed impossibly camp to me at one point or another: a doll whose body acts as a cover for a toilet roll, a tantrum over wire coat hangers, a 1950s muscle magazine featuring a photo of a young man dressed as a gladiator, and a rat underneath a silver serving platter'

An essential reappraisal of camp across time and across the globe, from the author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!

Camp has been an inescapable part of popular culture for at least the last 150 years. Famously unrestrained and ever evolving, it has not only captured the cultural imagination, but also played an important role as a form of protest and resistance.

Paul Baker takes us through camp's rebellious and revolutionary past with warmth, humour and sensitivity, starting with the court of Louis XIV and the dandies of the eighteenth century through to Showgirls, Harlem's drag balls and Columbian telenovelas.

Throughout its history, camp has been a place of refuge and renewal, of heroism and hedonism. This glorious celebration traces camp's journey from the fringes of society to the mainstream.©2023 Paul Baker (P)2023 Bonnier Books UK Entertainment & Performing Arts Film & TV History & Criticism LGBTQ+ Studies Music Social Sciences Entertainment

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This was such a well written, funny and insightful look at something that is very difficult to pin down and define. Really entertaining, and I have a lot of new things to look up to expand my knowledge on camp!

A sashay through history

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this was exquisite & encouraged me to consume the many camp delicacies that emerge out of Baker's oven, and be more camp myself. Ta-ra!

Delicious fun

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