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Life and death on the New York dance floor, 1980-1983 / Tim Lawrence.
Author
Lawrence, Tim, 1967-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
©2016
Description
xxi, 578 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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Available Online
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e-Duke Books Gender Studies Collection 2016
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML3411.5 .L379 2016
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Subject(s)
Dance music
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New York (State)
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New York
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Popular music
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New York (State)
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New York
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1981-1990
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History and criticism
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Popular culture
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New York (State)
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New York
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20th century
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History and criticism
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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.
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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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