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Hot stuff : disco and the remaking of American culture

Echols, Alice

Overview

\"American studies scholar and former deejay Alice Echols captures the experience of the Disco Years--on dance floors, at the movies, in the streets, and beneath the sheets. Disco may have presented itself as shallow and disposable--the platforms, polyester, and plastic vibe of it all--but the disco scene carved out a haven for gay men who reclaimed their sexuality on dance floors where they had once been surveilled and harassed; it thrust black women onto center stage as some of the genre's most prominent stars; and it paved the way for the opening of Studio 54 and the viral popularity of the shoestring-budget Saturday Night Fever, a movie that challenged traditional notions of masculinity, even for heterosexuals. But while exploring the cultural milieu, Echols never loses sight of the era's defining soundtrack, which propelled popular music into new sonic territory, influencing everything from rap and rock to techno and trance\"--From publisher description.

• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
• Subject: Disco music United States History and criticism. / Popular culture United States History 20th century. / Music Social aspects. / Popular culture United States History. / Disco music. / Popular culture. / United States.
• ISBN: 0393338916, 9780393338911

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
ML3526.E34 2011	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE