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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
First Ladies Of Disco
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Author : James Arena
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-07-03
First Ladies 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 2013-07-03 with Music categories.
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.
New York Paradise Lost
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Author : Meryl Meisler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-18
New York Paradise Lost written by Meryl Meisler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-18 with categories.
"The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." John Milton, Paradise LostNew York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco is an intimate photographic journey to the pandemonium and paradise of New York City during the 1970s through the early 1990s. Carrying her camera everywhere, Meryl documented a tumultuous time in the city's history; epidemics of arson, AIDS, crack, and crime intensified by a paralyzing blackout, political and fiscal crisis. Nevertheless, Meryl's effervescent images are a personal memoir - love letters filled with compassion and humor mixed with angst, kept secret for decades. The viewer explores a serpentine-like adventure. Split seconds of a flash expose hedonistic hangouts filled with overtly sexual and drug activity, celebrities, and people out to have a good time. Daylight reveals the beauty of those who loved and thrived in the destruction of Bushwick. Unique to New York PARADISE LOST, Meryl reveals an insider's point of view of Bushwick's school life - students, staff, and families working together to create a safer space to learn and grow despite societal ills of poverty and prejudice. Meryl's photos show the beginnings of the local community and government working together to rebuild Bushwick. From one small neighborhood and a larger city on the brink- new music, art, fashion, literature, creative thinking, and culture emerge and remain influential today. Flash forward four decades - many bemoan the gentrification of cities like New York City, the renaissance of small towns and neighborhoods like Bushwick. There is nostalgia for a "realness" and a sense of community lost in the process of change. New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco is a story of discovery, tenacity, and the resilient human spirit that can inspire us today. Then and now, individuals and communities must work together locally and globally to recover from a crisis. From our losses, may we learn, preserve, create and appreciate with renewed strength.
After Dark
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Author : Noel Hankin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08-03
After Dark written by Noel Hankin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-03 with categories.
Mid-town Buppies, big-time mobsters, fabulous dancing queens, and unscrupulous promoters all come together in After Dark, a first-hand account of the birth and growth of the disco movement in the 1970s. Disco music has earned an unflattering reputation for being garish and flashy; however, it was the voice of a generation that spoke using the power of dance to unite people. Now, for the first time you can hear the compelling, never-been-told story of the rise of the New York disco scene. In the late 1960s, a group of college students formed a social club called "The Best of Friends" (TBOF) and learned to monetize their love of dancing and music by building a multi-million-dollar network of discotheques. Their innovative DJing techniques transported dancers into a carefree state of euphoria that paved the way for "Saturday Night Fever," Studio 54, and the nationwide explosion of disco in the late '70s. TBOF discotheques attracted everyone from CEOs to mailroom clerks, from Rick James to Elizabeth Taylor, and from big-time mobsters to FBI agents. This unprecedented collection of humanity made it impossible to know what excitement would unfold each night. What the partners in TBOF did know is that After Dark, they had to be on their toes.
Disco Nights
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Author : Stephen A. Welles
language : en
Publisher: Streets of Honor
Release Date : 2010-07-07
Disco Nights written by Stephen A. Welles and has been published by Streets of Honor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-07 with Disco music categories.
""Disco Nights" is a musical novel (inspired by a true story) about "daily living" in the late 1970's during Disco's peak years. Working in the day, styling to the latest fashion at night, dancing to the Disco beatand hanging out with the honeys and guys was the plan of the day. This story is also about the appreciation for the artists, the disc jockeys, the great music, the street dance, and the illuminating clubs ... There is even a cool love story kicking to the beat of this Disco book. So, come on and take a journey back in time to 1977 to the New York City streets when Disco was in its prime. Let's dance and relive the memories of the Disco and the SalSoul sounds along with The Casablanca Story, Euro-Disco, The Sounds of Philly, Motown, Soul and early Rap music that all intertwined into a smooth, exciting1970's Disco beat"--Back cover.