Author:
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN: 9781942884309
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
"The records, the charts, the clubs, the stories"--Cover.
The Disco Files 1973-78
Author:
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN: 9781942884309
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
"The records, the charts, the clubs, the stories"--Cover.
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN: 9781942884309
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
"The records, the charts, the clubs, the stories"--Cover.
Hot Stuff
Author: Alice Echols
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393338916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
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.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393338916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
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.
Turn the Beat Around
Author: Peter Shapiro
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466894121
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466894121
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
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.
Skins
Author: Patrick Potter
Publisher: Carpet Bombing Culture
ISBN: 9781908211668
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The true skins have never gone away.Skinhead is the only British style tribe that still genuinely scares people. From the dancehalls to the football terraces, from the local pub to the tower blocks working class teens in the late 1960's found their own form of rebellion.
Publisher: Carpet Bombing Culture
ISBN: 9781908211668
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The true skins have never gone away.Skinhead is the only British style tribe that still genuinely scares people. From the dancehalls to the football terraces, from the local pub to the tower blocks working class teens in the late 1960's found their own form of rebellion.
Disco
Author: Patrick Vogt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957260023
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957260023
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"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.
Menergy
Author: Louis Niebur
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197511074
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"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"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197511074
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"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"--
Issues
Author: Vince Aletti
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714876788
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first book to showcase and critically explore the groundbreaking photography of fashion magazines over the last century For nearly a century, fashion magazines have provided sophisticated platforms for cutting-edge photography – work that challenges conventions and often reaches far beyond fashion itself. In this book, acclaimed photography critic Vince Aletti has selected 100 significant magazine issues from his expansive personal archive, revealing images by photographers rarely seen outside their original context. With his characteristic élan and featuring stunning images, Aletti has created a fresh, idiosyncratic, and previously unexplored angle on the history of photography.
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714876788
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first book to showcase and critically explore the groundbreaking photography of fashion magazines over the last century For nearly a century, fashion magazines have provided sophisticated platforms for cutting-edge photography – work that challenges conventions and often reaches far beyond fashion itself. In this book, acclaimed photography critic Vince Aletti has selected 100 significant magazine issues from his expansive personal archive, revealing images by photographers rarely seen outside their original context. With his characteristic élan and featuring stunning images, Aletti has created a fresh, idiosyncratic, and previously unexplored angle on the history of photography.
Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas
Author: Fran Lebowitz
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679879459
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
While exploring their New York City apartment building, seven-year-old Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue discover two pandas.
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679879459
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
While exploring their New York City apartment building, seven-year-old Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue discover two pandas.
Lexicon
Author: Max Barry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." —Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King “Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece.” —Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool Stick and stones break bones. Words kill. They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words. They'll live to regret it. They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember. Now they're after him and he doesn't know why. There's a word, they say. A word that kills. And they want it back . . .
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." —Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King “Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece.” —Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool Stick and stones break bones. Words kill. They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words. They'll live to regret it. They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember. Now they're after him and he doesn't know why. There's a word, they say. A word that kills. And they want it back . . .
The Disco Files 1973-78
Author: Vince Aletti
Publisher: Djhistory.com
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
"The records, the charts, the clubs, the stories"--Cover.
Publisher: Djhistory.com
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
"The records, the charts, the clubs, the stories"--Cover.