Hist Of The Usa From The Disco

Author : PETER. SHAPIRO
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571359825

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Turn the Beat Around by PETER. SHAPIRO Pdf

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid 'Disco Sucks' campaign at the end of the decade. Featuring artists such as Chic, Sylvester, Donna Summer and Frank Grasso, Turn the Beat Around illustrates why and how disco changed the face of popular culture forever.

Author : R. T. Naylor
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773575479

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History of Canadian Business by R. T. Naylor Pdf

Back in print - the 1975 classic about the triumph of corporate capitalism during Canada's formative years.

Author : Richard T. Stanley
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781491767962

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DISCO DAYS: A Social History of the 1970's by Richard T. Stanley Pdf

By 1972, President Richard Nixon had reached the heights of political power and popularity, only to self-destruct due to his role in a “third-rate” burglary called “Watergate.” Nixon resigned in disgrace, and, for the first time in history, Americans came to be led by an unelected President and Vice President -- Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller. But Americans had much more on their minds than mere politics -- movies, TV, sports, earning a living, etc. Hollywood motion pictures, including “The Godfather,” “Jaws,” and “Star Wars,” captured their imaginations, while weekly TV shows such as “All in the Family” and “Happy Days” made them laugh, and “Monday Night Football” kept their competitive juices flowing. To no one’s surprise, UCLA continued to win NCAA basketball championships, and such schools as Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Penn State, Texas, and USC remained dominant on the gridiron. And professional sports, thanks to such super-stars as BIllie Jean King, Kareem Abul-Jabbar, Henry Aaron, Jack Nicklaus, Muhammad Ali, Al Unser, and Terry Bradshaw, became more popular than ever. But who could have predicted at the beginning of the decade that a young high school dropout named John Travolta and a band called the Bees Gees would become the kings of Disco Dancing? Or that a peanut farmer from Georgia would be elected President during our Bicentennial Year?

Author : Beth L. Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059123896

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America in the Seventies by Beth L. Bailey Pdf

The seventies witnessed economic decline in America, coupled with a series of foreign policy failures, events that created an air of unease and uncertainty. This volume examines the ways in which Americans responded to a changing world and sought to redefine themselves.

Author : Steve Dahl,Dave Hoekstra,Paul Natkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Disco music
ISBN : 1940430755

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Disco Demolition by Steve Dahl,Dave Hoekstra,Paul Natkin Pdf

In Disco Demolition, Dave Hoekstra sets the record straight about the night that epitomized the rock and disco culture clash.

Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3552 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317462347

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Postwar America by James Ciment Pdf

From the outbreak of the Cold War to the rise of the United States as the last remaining superpower, the years following World War II were filled with momentous events and rapid change. Diplomatically, economically, politically, and culturally, the United States became a major influence around the globe. On the domestic front, this period witnessed some of the most turbulent and prosperous years in American history. "Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History" provides detailed coverage of all the remarkable developments within the United States during this period, as well as their dramatic impact on the rest of the world. A-Z entries address specific persons, groups, concepts, events, geographical locations, organizations, and cultural and technological phenomena. Sidebars highlight primary source materials, items of special interest, statistical data, and other information; and Cultural Landmark entries chronologically detail the music, literature, arts, and cultural history of the era. Bibliographies covering literature from the postwar era and about the era are also included, as are illustrations and specialized indexes.

Author : Alice Echols
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Alice Echols
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0393077012

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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. In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, “Do you wanna dance?” became divisive, even explosive. What was it about this music that made it such hot stuff? In this incisive history, Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco, assumed to be shallow and disposable, permanently transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and trance. This account probes the complex relationship between disco and the era’s major movements: gay liberation, feminism, and African American rights. But it never loses sight of the era’s defining soundtrack, spotlighting the work of precursors James Brown and Isaac Hayes, its dazzling divas Donna Summer and the women of Labelle, and some of its lesser-known but no less illustrious performers like Sylvester. You’ll never say “disco sucks” again after reading this fascinating account of the music you thought you hated but can’t stop dancing to.

Author : John Shepherd,David Horn
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781441160782

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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8 by John Shepherd,David Horn Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839023194

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The Richard Dyer Reader by Anonim Pdf

Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made path breaking contributions to our understanding of stardom and celebrity, gay and queer politics and cultural history, film music, race and whiteness and the pleasures of popular entertainment. The Richard Dyer Reader brings together for the first time key writings by this vital and influential figure, many of which are not otherwise available. The anthology guides readers through Dyer's prolific and rich output through six thematic selections of essays and extracts, each centred on a key theme in Dyer's work: stardom and the image; entertainment and ideology; gay politics and representation; whiteness; the pleasures of popular entertainment, and textual analysis. A seventh section comprises a selection of interviews conducted across the span of his career, as well as a new interview with editors Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman. The book will provide an introduction for those new to Dyer's writings, as well as offering a fresh perspective for readers with a more comprehensive knowledge of his work. The collection includes archival and recent pieces of writing never previously anthologised, newly commissioned essays, a substantial introduction to Dyer's life and work and framing introduction to each section.

Author : Tim Lawrence
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822385112

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Love Saves the Day by Tim Lawrence Pdf

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.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : UCAL:C3404797

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FCC Record by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015077750142

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A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence by Library Company of Philadelphia Pdf

Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : PSU:000067953356

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A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia by Library Company of Philadelphia Pdf

Author : Heath Mattioli,David Spacone
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781627310239

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Disco's Out...Murder's In! by Heath Mattioli,David Spacone Pdf

Famous for its revolutionary aspects in musical, political, sexual identity and consumerist ideas, punk rock also has its lesser-known gangster ethos as well, explained here by players in the various punk gangs. The Los Angeles, Orange County, and South Bay punk scenes, populated by blue collar kids who responded to the violence and aggression of punk songs and shows. A number of them formed punk gangs that got into beatings, drug dealing and murder. Among them, no gang was more notorious than La Mirada Punks, or LMP. Says LMP chieftain Frank the Shank after getting arrested by police for murder: "After having my hands in so much bloodshed over the years, I most certainly had it coming. I deserved whatever I got." Unexpectedly Frank was bailed out from prison by his father's friend, a mob gangster. "Too many people died at the hands of punk rock violence," said Frank. "I got lucky, some didn't. As an ultra-violent punk rock gangster, I admit my part in ruining the scene. L.A. punk was a magical moment of youth expression like no other. And the gangs ruined punk rock. I still have people telling me today that they quit punk because of LMP. I dig graves at a small cemetery just outside Los Angeles. What else would you expect for Frank the Shank?" Cover illustration by the renowned Raymond Pettibon.