Life and death on the New York dance floor, 1980-1983 / Tim Lawrence.

Author
Lawrence, Tim, 1967- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
xxi, 578 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-535), discography (pages 515-527), filmography (pages 529-530) and index.
    Contents
    • 1980 : the recalibration of disco
    • Stylistic coherence didn't matter at all
    • The basement den at Club 57
    • Danceteria : Midtown feels the downtown storm
    • Subterranean dance
    • The Bronx-Brooklyn approach
    • The sound became more real
    • Major-label calculations
    • The Saint Peter of discos
    • Lighting the fuse --1981 : accelerating toward pluralism
    • Explosion of clubs
    • Artistic maneuvers in the dark
    • Downtown configures hip hop
    • The sound of a transcendent future
    • The new urban street sound
    • It wasn't rock and roll and it wasn't disco
    • Frozen in time or freed into infinity
    • It felt like the whole city was listening
    • Shrouded abatements and mysterious deaths
    • 1982 : dance culture seizes the city
    • All we had was the club
    • Inverted pyramid
    • Roxy music
    • The garage : everybody was listening to everything
    • The planet rock groove
    • Techno funksters
    • Taste segues
    • Stormy weather
    • Cusp of an important fusion
    • 1983 : the genesis of division
    • Cristal for everyone
    • Dropping the pretense and the flashy suits
    • Straighten it out with Larry Levan
    • Stripped-down and scrambled sounds
    • We became part of this energy
    • Sex and dying
    • We got the hits, we got the future
    • Behind the groove
    • Epilogue. Life, death, and the hereafter.
    ISBN
    • 9780822361862 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0822361868 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780822362029 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0822362023 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016007103
    OCLC
    932385980
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