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English
Pages
578

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Subjects
Popular culture, History and criticism, Popular music, Dance music, History, Music, american, Music, history and criticism, Popular culture, united states
Places
New York (State), New York
Times
1981-1990, 20th century

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Table of 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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Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.

Copyright Date
2016

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Dewey Decimal Class
781.64
Library of Congress
ML3411.5 .L379 2016, ML3411.5.L379 2016

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Pagination
xxi, 578 pages
Number of pages
578

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Open Library
OL27218133M
ISBN 10
0822361868, 0822362023
ISBN 13
9780822361862, 9780822362029
LCCN
2016007103
OCLC/WorldCat
932385980
Wikidata
Q57234718

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