Free mp3 audiobooks for downloading Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker CHM 9781789141320 (English literature)
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Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker
- Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
- Paul Baker
- Page: 320
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781789141320
- Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Free mp3 audiobooks for downloading Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker CHM 9781789141320 (English literature)
Overview
Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution—or worse—Polari offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage, a way of expressing humor, and a means of identification and of establishing a community. Its roots are colorful and varied—from thieves’ Cant to Lingua Franca and prostitutes’ slang—and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters Julian and Sandy, voiced by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams, on the BBC radio show Round the Horne: “Oh Mr. Horne, how bona to vada your dolly old eke!” In Fabulosa!, Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, erudition, and tenderness. He traces its historical origins and describes its linguistic nuts and bolts, exploring the ways and the environments in which it was spoken, the reasons for its decline, and its unlikely reemergence in the twenty-first century. With a cast of drag queens and sailors, Dilly boys and macho clones, Fabulosa! is an essential document of recent history and a fascinating and fantastically readable account of this funny, filthy, and ingenious language.
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