Hot Stuff Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

Name: Hot Stuff Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
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ISBN: 9780393066753

ISBN-10: 0393066754

ISBN-13: 9780393066753

Edition: 2010

Authors: Alice Echols

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In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, â€œDo you wanna dance?â€ became divisive, even explosive. What was it about this music that made it such hot stuff? In this incisive history, Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco, assumed to be shallow and disposable, permanently transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and trance. This account probes the complex relationship between disco and the eraâ€™s major movements: gay liberation, feminism, and African American rights. But it never loses sight of the eraâ€™s defining soundtrack, spotlighting the work of precursors James Brown and Isaac Hayes, its dazzling…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/29/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 338
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Alice Echols, author of Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplinand Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America,has written for The Nation, The Village Voice, Newsday,and L.A. Weekly.