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Disco Years
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Author : Ron Galella
language : en
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Release Date : 2006
Disco Years written by Ron Galella and has been published by powerHouse Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Celebrities categories.
The definitive visual diary of the New York club scene in the 70s, Disco Years presents an astounding collection of photographs from America's premier nightlife photographer, Ron Galella. His candid shots of the era's fabulous fashionistas, indulgent rock idols, outlandish artists, mystical muses, jet-setting socialites and fantastic freaks reveal the delicious decadence that defined the decade. Disco Years brings viewers the high life, literally and figuratively. It takes people back to a time when skiing was an indoor activity, velvet ropes were high security, and incredible style was the only requirement.
Disco Years
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To Disco With Love
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Author : David Hamsley
language : en
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Release Date : 2015-11-24
To Disco With Love written by David Hamsley and has been published by Flatiron Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-24 with Music categories.
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.
Legends Of Disco
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Author : James Arena
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-04-06
Legends Of Disco written by James Arena and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-06 with Music categories.
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.
Disco Years
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Disco Years written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Includes a slipcased copy of the book and an eleven by fourteen inch silver-gelatin print, signed and numbered by the artist.
Turn The Beat Around
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Author : Peter Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2015-06-23
Turn The Beat Around written by Peter Shapiro and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-23 with Music categories.
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.
Did Disco Suck The Life Of A Musical Genre
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Author : Antje Lehmann
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2008-08
Did Disco Suck The Life Of A Musical Genre written by Antje Lehmann and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, LMU Munich, course: Proseminar "Popular Music & American Society, 1955-Present: An Introduction", language: English, abstract: The term "genre" is often confusing. When asked to categorize certain songs or groups into musical genres, many people will probably have trouble to do so. There are many genres, and not all of them are accepted or even known by everyone. Some genres are hard to tell apart for many people. One of the more widely accepted genres is disco. Most people would, however, not regard it as one of the most important genres in music history. Common associations with disco include the Bee Gees, the Village People, and the movie "Saturday Night Fever". Disco, for most people, is easy-listening and has a slightly tacky image. But why was disco so successful during the 1970s? And how come that with the disco revival of the 1990s, the shadowy existence of disco during the 1980s was exchanged for retro reminiscence? The fact that disco is not considered an important part of music history is shown by its rather stepmotherly treatment in literature. Of the literature used for this work, the books Just My Soul Responding by Brian Ward (though containing a fairly short section on disco) and A Change Is Gonna Come by Craig Werner, both proved to be very useful regarding the evaluation of disco as a product of its time. The books Hot Stuff by John-Manuel Andriote and Saturday Night Forever by Alan Jones and Jussi Kantonen are less scientific, but in exchange they both offer very enthusiastic inside views by people who seem to have lived for disco in the 1970s. Both are thoroughly researched and full of interesting additional information. The purpose of both books is to raise awareness of the importance disco had on the music industry, and on the people themselves, back in the 1970s. The lack of literature on disco is in a way compensated for by many
Macho Man
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Author : Randy Jones
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-12-30
Macho Man written by Randy Jones and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-30 with Social Science categories.
The Vietnam War was over and America seemed in the midst of a nationwide party. The self-proclaimed Me generation was flocking to discotheques, recreational drug use was high, and sexual taboos were being shattered nationwide. Then The Village People appeared on the music scene. Never before had gay sexuality been as up-front and in the face of America. The Village People struck a cultural nerve and fueled a craze that had them playing to sold-out crowds at Madison Square Garden. Even today, few adults could not at least hum the tunes to Y.M.C.A. and Macho Man. Because of the unique role they played in the United States of the late 1970s, The Village People are able to provide a powerful lens through which to view the emergence and development of gay culture in America. In Macho Man, readers can travel back with one of the first gay icons in popular music, and a top pop culture biographer, as they describe this complicated process of change. In these pages, Randy Jones, the original cowboy in the band, takes us inside the time period, the discos, and the new musical style that was in many ways unprecedented in giving a voice to a previously closeted gay culture. Assisted by Mark Bego, one of the most popular and prolific pop culture authors working today, Jones shows how the fast-lane rise, fall, and rebirth of this novel band paralleled activities across the last 40 years within the gay culture and gay rights movement. The work concludes with a gayography — a listing of openly gay musicians and performers in the United States before and since The Village People - along with a discography and filmography. This work will interest pop culture and music enthusiasts, in addition to scholars in gay studies.
Disco
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Author : Johnny Morgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Disco written by Johnny Morgan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Disco music categories.
A guide to the disco phenomenon, featuring photographs and memorabilia from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, pays tribute to the performers and portrays the lifestyle that influenced everything from music and dancing to movies and fashion.
Hot Stuff Disco And The Remaking Of American Culture
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Author : Alice Echols
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2010-03-29
Hot Stuff Disco And The Remaking Of American Culture written by Alice Echols and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-29 with History categories.
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.