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| Title | : | Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (969 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393338916 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DanC said Alice Echols tried to turn herself into a man,. Alice Echols tried to turn herself into a man, failed. This book is about the AIDS crises of men in the 1970s. She knows nothing of the disco movement at that time, nothing of the music. She spun a few records and transformed herself into an expert in her own mind.. VC Ouranos said Excellent read!. Echols new book on disco is an engaging, smart read. She brings to life both the political complexities of the time as well as the music and it's many scenes. A brilliant historian and superb storyteller (the book is filled with great anecdotes), Echols' book transcends t. Great stuff! B. E. Conekin Lively, readable, yet serious and scholarly, once again, Echols gives us a social and cultural history of America in the 1970s that we all need. This book is a pleasure from the first line to last, with the insets in between, adding a particularly nice touch, as they each
"Remarkable. 20 black-and-white photographs. She probes the complex relationship between disco and the era's major movements: gay liberation, feminism, and African American rights. Carried along by prose that is as sleek and slinky as its subject."Christine Stansell, University of Chicago Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and trance. You won't say "disco sucks" as disco thumps back to life in this pulsating look at the culture and politics that gave rise to the music
Using an encyclopedic knowledge of the eras' biggest stars, she shows how all sorts of musical disco styles played a central role in broadening the contours of blackness, femininity, and male homosexuality in America. . She brings to light the influence of underground legends such as club deejay Tom Moulton, who first remixed popular records to make them longer for dancing and created the model for the 12-inch, extended play disco single. Best of all is Echols's revelatory look at how the critique of racism and sexism in the film Saturday Night Fever offers a richer portrait of the disco seventies than its critics have granted. (Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. She brilliantly explores the many ways that early disco clubs created new spaces where gay men could safely come together in a large crowd, at the same time often masking an early strain of the racial and class exclusion that dom
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