Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster, authors of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
Excellent. Leaves no doubt that disco lives at the heart of recent music history.
Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop, Won't Stop
Riveting, powerful, and essential.
Book Description
A seminal popular culture book on a much maligned genre -- D.I.S.C.O!
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Product Description
Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. Drawing on the music of Sly Stone and Parliament- Funkadelic, and the ethos of pleasure-is-politics, disco was the first musical form to explore the relationship between the machine and the body, and consequently became the progenitor of house, hip hop and techno. As such, and as a genre, disco radically redefined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid 'Disco Sucks' campaign at the end of the decade. Featuring artists like Chic, Sylvester, Donna Summer, Larry Levan and Frank Grasso, as well as a discussion of the clubs and labels that defined the period, Turn the Beat Around illustrates how and why disco changed the face of popular culture for ever.
About the Author
Peter Shapiro writes for The Wire and lives in New York. Turn the Beat Around is his first book.
