Life and death on the New York dance floor, 1980-1983
By: Tim Lawrence
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9780822361862; 9780822362029
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Popular culture; History and criticism; Popular music; Dance music; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and index.
Table of contents: title: 1980 : the recalibration of disco. Stylistic coherence didn't matter at all; title: The basement den at Club 57; title: Danceteria : Midtown feels the downtown storm; title: Subterranean dance; title: The Bronx-Brooklyn approach; title: The sound became more real; title: Major-label calculations; title: The Saint Peter of discos; title: Lighting the fuse; title: 1981 : accelerating toward pluralism. Explosion of clubs; title: Artistic maneuvers in the dark; title: Downtown configures hip hop; title: The sound of a transcendent future; title: The new urban street sound; title: It wasn't rock and roll and it wasn't disco; title: Frozen in time or freed into infinity; title: It felt like the whole city was listening; title: Shrouded abatements and mysterious deaths; title: 1982 : dance culture seizes the city. All we had was the club; title: Inverted pyramid; title: Roxy music; title: The garage : everybody was listening to everything; title: The planet rock groove; title: Techno funksters; title: Taste segues; title: Stormy weather; title: Cusp of an important fusion; title: 1983 : the genesis of division. Cristal for everyone; title: Dropping the pretense and the flashy suits; title: Straighten it out with Larry Levan; title: Stripped-down and scrambled sounds; title: We became part of this energy; title: Sex and dying; title: We got the hits, we got the future; title: Behind the groove; title: Epilogue. Life, death, and the hereafter.