To Disco With Love

Author : David Hamsley
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781250068460

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To Disco, with Love by David Hamsley Pdf

Over 250 Disco-era album covers-from sexy to silly, elegant to outrageous-that brings alive a time when fashion, politics, and sexuality all converged in harmony on the dance floor. Paging through To Disco, with Love is like catching Saturday Night Fever all over again. From Diana Ross and Donna Summer gazing fiercely from their chart topping albums to the Village People's trademark costumes and the Bee Gee's blinding white jumpsuits, To Disco celebrates the days when the dance floor ruled the world. Gathered together and presented chronologically, these striking covers tell the story of a moment in time when art and photography, music, and dance changed the world. We see a rapid evolution, from the early days when Disco's roots were firmly planted in Soul, Latin, and Jazz, all the way to the digital revolution of the 1980s. Like fleeting moments caught in the strobe, these covers vibrantly capture our takes on fashion and beauty, wealth and status, sex, race, and even God. As the hair gets bigger, bell bottoms wider, and platform shoes steeper, the vibrancy and energy of this moment in music history is brought back to vivid life. Accompanied by insightful, spirited descriptions that showcase the evolving trends in photography, illustration, and design, To Disco, with Love charts the history of the music and the industry during its groovy heyday.

Author : Tim Lawrence
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Will Hermes
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429968676

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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes Pdf

A vivid, dramatic account of how half a dozen kinds of modern music--punk rock, art rock, disco, salsa, rap, minimalist classical--emerged in new forms and cross-pollinated all at once in the middle seventies in NYC. Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented—block by block, by musicians who knew, admired, and borrowed from one another. Crime was everywhere, the government was broke, and the infrastructure was collapsing. But rent was cheap, and the possibilities for musical exploration were limitless. Will Hermes's Love Goes to Buildings on Fire is the first book to tell the full story of the era's music scenes and the phenomenal and surprising ways they intersected. From New Year's Day 1973 to New Year's Eve 1977, the book moves panoramically from post-Dylan Greenwich Village, to the arson-scarred South Bronx barrios where salsa and hip-hop were created, to the lower Manhattan lofts where jazz and classical music were reimagined, to ramshackle clubs like CBGB and the Gallery, where rock and dance music were hot-wired for a new generation.

Author : Rebecca Ryan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781398509276

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The Philosophy of Love by Rebecca Ryan Pdf

What is love? Is it something spiritual or wholly physical? Can our feelings be explained and quantified? Or are we all actually two halves of a whole? Ask Alice and Luke and you’d receive vastly different answers. Despite her world having been recently dismantled by a messy break-up, Alice would tell you that love is the most important – albeit ineffable – human experiences. But when she once again crosses paths with her old school nemesis, Luke, he challenges this. Luke is a scientist and he’s certain love can be measured and explained – just like everything else. So the two decide to make a bet: they’ll each venture back into dating and if one of them falls in love, Alice wins, if not, then Luke does. But can anyone win when you’re playing with emotions?

Author : Steven Blush
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : William Congreve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1710
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822038198602

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The old bachelor. The double dealer. Love for love by William Congreve Pdf

Author : Anne Venn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1658
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024023288

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A wise virgins lamp burning; or, Gods sweet incomes of love to a gracious soul waiting for him. [With two prefaces; the first by T. Weld, and the second by J. Knight.] by Anne Venn Pdf

Author : Gaultier de Coste La Calprenède (seigneur de)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1736
Category : French fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433105463230

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Hymen's Præludia: Or, Love's Master-piece by Gaultier de Coste La Calprenède (seigneur de) Pdf

Author : Laurie Tallack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521908710

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The Early Days of Disco by Laurie Tallack Pdf

Your hero is Tony Manero, you believe your album covers and you've seen Saturday Night Fever too many times. But you live in Portsmouth, you're scared of women and you can't dance. It's not a good start. Kenneth has a forty year obsession with all things disco - a world that promises so much in a land where it's forever out of reach. But the discos are closing, his friends are marrying and the music is changing. So he heads out for one last night... one last night to capture the essence of what it all actually meant - the spirit of Disco. This is the story of someone in love with the nightlife... perhaps too much.

Author : Anne Shade
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635559866

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Love and Lotus Blossoms by Anne Shade Pdf

Janesse Crawford spends her teenage and young adult years trying to balance her tomboy, girl-loving side with being the picture-perfect daughter her mother wants. It’s difficult, and Janesse is full of self-doubt, but she manages to find a way to make it work. Then Janesse meets sexy, confident Maya Lawson, who is everything she didn’t realize she wanted, and her world is turned upside down. But Janesse makes a choice and doesn’t look back. ​​​​​​​Thirty years later, Janesse is married to a man who loves her, has raised two wonderful children, and has a successful career doing what she loves. But when a chance meeting with Maya brings her past rushing back, the lie Janesse has been living comes crashing in on her. She let Maya get away once, but her second chance at true love could cost her the picture-perfect world she’s spent a lifetime building. It’s not too late for Janesse to blossom into the woman she’s always wished to be. But on her path to self-acceptance, she will risk everything—and possibly everyone—she loves.

Author : Vince Aletti
Publisher : Djhistory.com
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015084183915

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The Disco Files 1973-78 by Vince Aletti Pdf

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

Author : Dave THOMPSON
Publisher : Backbeat Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1493049801

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I Feel Love by Dave THOMPSON Pdf

A celebratory look at how the groundbreaking disco hit changed the world and became "one of the most influential records ever made". (Financial Times)

Author : International Masters Publishers, Incorporated
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 189220780X

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I'm in Love by International Masters Publishers, Incorporated Pdf

Author : Tim Lawrence
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822331988

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Love Saves the Day by Tim Lawrence Pdf

Describes American dance music culture in the 1970s, profiling key events, musicians, movements, DJs, and venues that defined the era.

Author : Gorges Edmond Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1782
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015013162410

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The Miscellaneous Works: Apothegms and maxims for the good conduct of life, &c. Observations and queries on the present laws of this kingdom, relative to persons of the popish religion. Some observations upon libels by Gorges Edmond Howard Pdf