The Disco Files 1973-78

The Disco Files 1973-78

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Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)

Published: 2018-10-23

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9781942884309

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"The records, the charts, the clubs, the stories"--Cover.


Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff

Author: Alice Echols

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-03-22

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0393338916

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Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and trance. She probes the complex relationship between disco and the era's major movements: gay liberation, feminism, and African American rights. You won't say "disco sucks" as disco thumps back to life in this pulsating look at the culture and politics that gave rise to the music.


Social Studies

Social Studies

Author: Fran Lebowitz

Publisher: Ardent Media

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13:

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The author is by turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, and wisecracking.


Love Saves the Day

Love Saves the Day

Author: Tim Lawrence

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2004-02-02

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 0822385112

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Opening with David Mancuso's seminal “Love Saves the Day” Valentine's party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s—from its subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell’s Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to its wildfire transmission through America’s suburbs and urban hotspots such as Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Newark, and Miami. Tales of nocturnal journeys, radical music making, and polymorphous sexuality flow through the arteries of Love Saves the Day like hot liquid vinyl. They are interspersed with a detailed examination of the era’s most powerful djs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin—as well as the labels, musicians, vocalists, producers, remixers, party promoters, journalists, and dance crowds that fueled dance music’s tireless engine. Love Saves the Day includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Tom Moulton, Loleatta Holloway, Giorgio Moroder, Francis Grasso, Frankie Knuckles, and Earl Young. It incorporates more than twenty special dj discographies—listing the favorite records of the most important spinners of the disco decade—and a more general discography cataloging some six hundred releases. Love Saves the Day also contains a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos.


Turn the Beat Around

Turn the Beat Around

Author: Peter Shapiro

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2015-06-23

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1466894121

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A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the culture that spawned it Disco may be the most universally derided musical form to come about in the past forty years. Yet, like its pop cultural peers punk and hip hop, it was born of a period of profound social and economic upheaval. In Turn the Beat Around, critic and journalist Peter Shapiro traces the history of disco music and culture. From the outset, disco was essentially a shotgun marriage between a newly out and proud gay sexuality and the first generation of post-civil rights African Americans, all to the serenade of the recently developed synthesizer. Shapiro maps out these converging influences, as well as disco's cultural antecedents in Europe, looks at the history of DJing, explores the mainstream disco craze at it's apex, and details the long shadow cast by disco's performers and devotees on today's musical landscape. One part cultural study, one part urban history, and one part glitter-pop confection, Turn the Beat Around is the most comprehensive study of the Me Generation to date.


Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas

Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas

Author: Fran Lebowitz

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9780679879459

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While exploring their New York City apartment building, seven-year-old Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue discover two pandas.


Menergy

Menergy

Author: Louis Niebur

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0197511074

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"Menergy tells the story of a "post-disco" recording industry in San Francisco between the years 1978-1984. For most of America, disco died in 1979. Gay men, however, continued to dance, and in the gay enclave of the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco, enterprising gay DJs, record producers, and musicians started their own small dance music record labels to make up for the lack of new, danceable music. These independent labels' music did more than copy what the larger industry had been doing, however. Instead, the upstart companies built upon the musical experiments their roster of local musicians and producers had been exploring over the last several years, developing a distinctive style of its own. Known as "high energy," the music reveled in electronics, fast tempos, disco and DJ culture, and, above all, gay liberation as it had emerged over the previous decade in the Castro neighborhood by so called "Castro clones" (a gay subculture of exaggerated masculinity with a strong presence in the city's nightlife). The sound, like the new revolutionary ethos, derived its aesthetic from San Francisco's unique configuration of elements, but immediately this music had a reach far beyond the Bay, with Megatone Records, Moby Dick Records, and other labels achieving worldwide success with San Francisco artists such as Sylvester, Patrick Cowley, Paul Parker, Lisa, Loverde, and Jolo, creating the world's first gay-owned, gay-produced music for a dancing audience"--


Tales From A Broad

Tales From A Broad

Author: Fran Lebowitz

Publisher: Monsoon Books

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9814358452

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When a frazzled New Yorker who is mad, bad and dangerous to know lands in Asia, life is never quite the same again - for anyone ... Fran Lebowitz cheerfully admits that she is intergalactically self-absorbed, a little crazy and really, really hard to please - just ask her eternally patient and bemused husband, Frank. But when her life in the fast land falls apart - again - it's time for a miracle. Reeling from the worst week of her life, topped off by her most important client stabbing her in the back, Fran realises that she's almost forgotten what her family looks like. She wants out of the rat race and her hectic life as a literary agent - and time to be herself, a real wife and mother to her two small children. Good old Frank delivers what seems the answer to her prayers - to escape for three months to Singapore while he does some business. But what starts out as a little break and a very big culture shock for all concerned marks the hilarious beginning of the end of the old Fran - and a whole new life.


Disco

Disco

Author: Patrick Vogt

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780957260023

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"This book features the amazing artwork of more than 2000 disco record cover designs from the 1970s up to the mid-1980s that together create a unique visual history of disco music and culture."--Page 4 of cover.