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« Previous · Home Next » REPORTER SEARCHES FOR MAN-ON-THE-STREET ROCK SNOBS A young reporter from San Antonio’s WOAI (the call letters of both a radio station and an NBC television affiliate) recently trawled the city’s record shops and her own station’s offices in search of Rock Snobs. Here’s what she found. (Video seems to work better in Explorer than in Firefox or Safari.) July 12, 2005 More Rock Snobbery »		Rock Snobbery Rock Snobbery Explained Read Selected Entries Buy the Book! Film Snobbery Film Snobbery Explained Read Selected Entries Buy the Book! Food Snobbery Food Snobbery Explained Read Selected Entries Buy the Book! Wine Snobbery Wine Snobbery Explained Read Selected Entries Buy the Book! Sylvester. Aggressively queeny black disco singer of the late 1970s (1947–1988), posthumously regarded by dance-music Snobs and queer theorists as the spangly materfamilias of modern, hedonistic club culture. (He paraded about in drag years before RuPaul and OutKast’s Andre 3000.) Though such amyl-popper anthems as “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” and “Dance (Disco Heat)” were never huge chart hits, they won the crucial appreciation of the Studio 54 cognoscenti, making Sylvester a chic name-drop in Manhattan to this day. His hefty backing singers, Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes, later scored their own gay-disco hit as the Weather Girls, with “It’s Raining Men.” Read more from the Rock Snob's Dictionary » Rock Snobbery Archives Film Snobbery Archives Food Snobbery Archives Wine Snobbery Archives Monthly Archive February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005
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