Turn The Beat Around
The Hambledon
£8.99
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken
writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first
century.
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. As a genre, disco radically re-defined 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 such as Chic, Sylvester, Donna Summer and Frank
Grasso, Turn the Beat Around illustrates why and how disco changed the
face of popular culture forever.
Paperback, 368 pages by Peter Shapiro
13 x 20 x 2.2cm
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