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Life and death on the New York dance floor, 1980-1983
- Title
- Life and death on the New York dance floor, 1980-1983 / Tim Lawrence.
- Author
- Lawrence, Tim, 1967-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 578 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Popular music
- Dance music
- Popular culture
- 1900-1999
- Popular music > New York (State) > New York > 1981-1990 > History and criticism
- Dance music > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > History and criticism
- New York (State) > New York
- Popular culture > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-535), discography (pages 515-527), filmography (pages 529-530) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JNE 16-152
- ISBN
- 9780822361862
- 0822361868
- 9780822362029
- 0822362023
- LCCN
- 2016007103
- OCLC
- 932385980
- Author
- Lawrence, Tim, 1967- author.
- Title
- Life and death on the New York dance floor, 1980-1983 / Tim Lawrence.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-535), discography (pages 515-527), filmography (pages 529-530) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Lawrence, Tim, 1967- Life and death on the New York dance floor, 1980-1983. Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 9780822361862 (OCoLC)932385980
- Research Call Number
- JNE 16-152