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Turn the beat around: the secret history of disco

By Peter , Shapiro

Book information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2005
ISBN
9781466894129, 1466894121
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
547 kB (560209 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
(ix, 369 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Disco music;Disco music--History and criticism;Disetc;Disco music -- History and criticism;Popular cinterpretation

Description

Provides a study of the most important musical form of the 1970s that assesses the history of disco music and the cultural, social, and economic milieu of the era that spawned it.;The rotten apple -- "I'm just and outlaw, my name is desire" : disco and sexuality -- "Like clones and robots that we are" : automating the beat -- "Zippin' up my boots, going back to my roots" : disco and the soul continuum -- Prisoners of the night : the disco craze -- "So why should I be ashamed?" : disco goes underground -- "Stayin' alive" : disco today.

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