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Paul Baker: Fabulosa!

Paul Baker: Fabulosa!

The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language. UK 2020, 320 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 19.95
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Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the 20th century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colorful roots are varied -from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers' 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 hello Mr Horne, how bona to vada your dolly old eek!«). Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari. He traces its historical origins and describes its linguistic nuts and bolts, explores the ways and the environments in which it was spoken, explains the reasons for its decline, and tells of its unlikely reemergence in the 21st century. With a cast of drag queens and sailors, Dilly boys and macho clones, »Fabulosa!« is an essential document of recent history.
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