Disco

Author : Steven Blush
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781493063901

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When Rock Met Disco by Steven Blush Pdf

Disco began as a gay, black, and brown underground New York City party music scene, which alone was enough to ward off most rockers. The difference between rock and disco was as sociological as it was aesthetic. At its best, disco was galvanizing and affirmative. Its hypnotic power to uplift a broad spectrum of the populace made it the ubiquitous music of the late '70s. Disco was a primal and gaudy fanfare for the apocalypse, a rage for exhibitionism, free of moralizing. Disco was an exclamatory musical passageway into the future. 1978 was the apex of the record industry. Rock music, commercially and artistically, had never been more successful. At the same time, disco was responsible for roughly 40% of the records on Billboard's Hot 100, thanks to the largest-selling soundtrack of all time in Saturday Night Fever. The craze for this music by The Bee Gees revived The Hustle and dance studios across America. For all its apparent excesses and ritual zealotry, disco was a conservative realm, with obsolete rules like formal dress code and dance floor etiquette. When most '70s artists "went disco," it was the relatively few daring rockers who had the most impact, bringing their intensity and personality to a faceless phenomenon. Rock stars who "went disco" crossed a musical rubicon and forever smashed cultural conformity. The ongoing dance-rock phenomenon demonstrates the impact of this unique place and time. The disco crossover forever changed rock.

Author : Alice Echols
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393066753

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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture by Alice Echols Pdf

Disco thumps back to life in this pulsating look at the culture and politics that gave rise to the music. Readers will never say disco sucks again after reading this fascinating account of the music they thought they hated but can't stop dancing to.

Author : James Arena
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476624570

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Legends of Disco by James Arena Pdf

In this candid retrospective of the disco era, 40 men and women who reigned over the dance music industry of the 1970s and 1980s recall their lives and careers before, during and after the genre’s explosion. Artists interviewed include Alfa Anderson, formerly of Chic (“Good Times”); Ed Cermanski and Robert Upchurch of The Trammps (“Disco Inferno”); Sarah Dash (“Sinner Man”); producer John Davis (“Ain’t That Enough for You”); Janice Marie Johnson of A Taste of Honey (“Boogie Oogie Oogie”); France Joli (“Come to Me”); Denis LePage of Lime (“Babe, We’re Gonna Love Tonite”); Randy Jones of the Village People (“Y.M.C.A.”); Rob Parissi of Wild Cherry (“Play That Funky Music”); producer Warren Schatz (“Turn the Beat Around”); Debbie, Joni and Kim Sledge of Sister Sledge (“We Are Family”); and many more.

Author : Jan Pawul
Publisher : Jan Yahu Pawul
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788394552336

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Italian Disco History by Jan Pawul Pdf

ENGLISH LANGUAGE eBook on DVD+R rekord – DVD-Rom (over 1GB content) - - - > about Italia disco & deejay history ... SUPER / GIANT / MEGA BOOK !! + hundreds of unique photos I wrote such a giant, very unique book (based on my interviews). This book is available in modern computer, electronic format only - to read on a computer screen, etc. Content are - text PDF. + images JPG. files as several hundred of rare and unique photos. contact author / publisher - [email protected]

Author : Richie Narvaez
Publisher : Arte Público Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781518506222

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Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco by Richie Narvaez Pdf

Holly Hernandez, voted “Miss Bright of ’79” and valedictorian at her previous school, is excited to start fresh at Flatbush Technical High School, one of the most competitive public schools in New York City. She’ll be one of thousands; anonymous. But her dreams of a normal school life disappear when her mother, a homicide detective, has to investigate the murder of Mr. Friedman, the social studies teacher. One of her classmates, Xander Herrera, quickly becomes the primary suspect. The tall, awkward boy is socially inept, but Holly doesn’t think he’s a murderer. She is intent on exonerating him—but he wants nothing to do with her. To Xander, Holly is the overly enthusiastic student who always sits in the front row and answers all the teachers’ questions—correctly. He hates perky people! Eventually cleared of the crime, Xander is determined to find the killer before Holly. As they race to solve the case, their separate investigations lead to a slew of suspects, including another teacher seen arguing with Friedman and a mysterious person named Steve who met with him several times before his death. Could it have been a disgruntled student? Ultimately, a trophy for a disco-dancing contest leads the intrepid young detectives to the Mission Venus nightclub and a murderer intent on killing again!

Author : Tyler Colins
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000489343

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Disco's Dead and so is Mo-Mo by Tyler Colins Pdf

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of mobster Mo-Mo Martine in Canada during the days of disco and polyester is finally solved when his body is found in a drum off the sapphire waters of Oahu. An associate (local limb-breaker Harry the Hoarse) asks the pretty private investigators from the Triple Threat Investigation Agency - JJ, Rey, and Linda - to prove it wasn’t his brother-in-law, Johnny B. He’d been accused back then but never arrested, and it certainly appears that he’s the perp now. The trio finds itself embroiled in the most challenging, if not deadly, case yet! Countless people - family, friends, foes - hated Mo-Mo. Anyone could have murdered him. Or was it a professional hit by the notorious, never-miss Death Angel? Is it possible!? The faceless, nameless assassin-for-hire is still plying his trade after all these years? As bodies drop, the P.I.s begin to believe answers won’t come from anyone they interview; they’ll be found in mysterious photos dating back to Mo-Mo’s disco days. They merely have to decipher what the people and backdrops in those photos are telling them—a tricky task indeed. Will they figure it out before more murders occur... perhaps theirs?

Author : Orville Schell
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307767141

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Discos and Democracy by Orville Schell Pdf

In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.

Author : James Arena
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476603322

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First Ladies of Disco by James Arena Pdf

The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the '70s and early '80s were an extraordinarily talented group who dazzled the world with an exciting blend of elegance, soulful passion and gutsy fire. In this book of original interviews, 32 of these women tell their stories, explaining how they view their music, careers, connection to gay audiences, and their places in dance music history. Interviewed artists include: The Andrea True Connection; Claudja Barry; Pattie Brooks; Miquel Brown; Linda Clifford; Carol Douglas; Yvonne Elliman; Rochelle Fleming (First Choice); Gloria Gaynor; Debbie Jacobs-Rock; Madleen Kane; Evelyn "Champagne" King; Audrey Landers; Suzi Lane; Cynthia Manley (Boys Town Gang); Kelly Marie; Maxine Nightingale; Scherrie Payne; Wardell Piper; The Ritchie Family, 1975-1978: Gwendolyn Wesley, Cassandra Wooten and Cheryl Mason-Dorman; The Ritchie Family, 1978-1982: Theodosia "Dodie" Draher; Barbara Roy (Ecstasy Passion & Pain); Pamala Stanley; Evelyn Thomas; Jeanie Tracy; Anita Ward; Martha Wash; Carol Williams; Jessica Williams and Norma Jean Wright.

Author : Nelson George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0143035150

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Hip Hop America by Nelson George Pdf

From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, Hip Hop America is the definitive account of the society-altering collision between black youth culture and the mass media.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000010473746

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Army Host by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jafari S. Allen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021896

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There's a Disco Ball Between Us by Jafari S. Allen Pdf

In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls “Black gay habits of mind.” In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from radical Black lesbian activism and writing during the long 1980s. He traverses multiple temporalities and locations, drawing on research and fieldwork conducted across the globe, from Nairobi, London, and Paris to Toronto, Miami, and Trinidad and Tobago. In these locations and archives, Allen traces the genealogies of Black gay politics and cultures in the visual art, poetry, film, Black feminist theory, historiography, and activism of thinkers and artists such as Audre Lorde, Marsha P. Johnson, Essex Hemphill, Colin Robinson, Marlon Riggs, Pat Parker, and Joseph Beam. Throughout, Allen renarrates Black queer history while cultivating a Black gay method of thinking and writing. In so doing, he speaks to the urgent contemporary struggles for social justice while calling on Black studies to pursue scholarship, art, and policy derived from the lived experience and fantasies of Black people throughout the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English language
ISBN : CHI:102023958

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Technical Dictionary in Four Languages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Botany
ISBN : PSU:000059977629

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Botanical Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Aberdeen-Angus cattle
ISBN : UCAL:B3243345

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The American Aberdeen-Angus Herd-book by American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Association Pdf

Author : American Angus Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Aberdeen-Angus cattle
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078841792

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American Aberdeen-Angus Herd Book by American Angus Association Pdf