{"id":289,"date":"2017-06-01T00:41:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T06:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/wordpress\/?p=289"},"modified":"2025-08-08T03:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:35:30","slug":"breaking-down-the-walls-of-heartache-how-music-came-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/01\/breaking-down-the-walls-of-heartache-how-music-came-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: How Music Came Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tangentgroup.org\/walls-of-heartache-review\/\">A review of the book by Martin Aston<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this new volume, <em>Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: How Music Came Out<\/em>, Aston fills a much needed lapse in LGBT+ pop history.&nbsp;Unlike books such as&nbsp;<em>Zoot Suits and Second-Hand Dresses<\/em>&nbsp;(1988) edited by Angela McRobbie and John Gill\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Queer Noises<\/em> (1995), the former which deals with the subject tangentially and the latter&nbsp;which deals with it personally and sporadically, <em>Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache<\/em>&nbsp;(taking its name from a late \u201960s Northern soul hit) moves decade by decade through the 20th century (a bit before, and after), just as the music itself comes&nbsp;into play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of the book by Martin Aston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,33,157],"tags":[156,164],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lgbt-history","category-music","category-review","tag-martin-aston","tag-tangent-group"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/big_mama_thornton_2-e1538201707675.jpg?fit=2105%2C1209&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paF2cn-4F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10465,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/10465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityofmercy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}