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The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture from the Margins to the Mainstream velvet underground In The Seventies she ExpandedJon Savage, the author of the canonical Englands Dreaming, explodes new ground in this electrifying history of pop music from 1955 through 1979. In demonstrating that gay and lesbian artists were responsible for many of the greatest cultural breakthroughs in the last half of the twentieth century, he shows that it was their secretly encoded musicappealing to a closeted but greatly oppressed publicwhich led to the historic dismantling of discriminatory