Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (759 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01LSWTRZ2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 267 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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If you never danced yourself dizzy at the Roxy, the Paradise Garage, or the Mudd Club, here's a chance to feel the bass and taste the sweat.". "Tim Lawrence brings the authority of his deeply sourced disco history Love Saves the Day to club culture's great melting-pot moment, when hip hop, punk, and disco transformed one another, with input from salsa, jazz, and Roland 808s
My Loft & Garage Days come alive, again!!! Amazon CustomerValyew The absolute best account of Disco and Dance in the 70's, especially if you were a Loft & Garage person. Really learned some new and interesting stuff about my boys, David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Larry Levan and my best bud, Walter Gibbons. Loved this book!!!. "Five Stars" according to Droopus. Fabulous history of a very unique time in NYC. Well-written, and minutely details.. "Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. FIERCE.
Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification, Reaganomics, corporate intrusion, and the spread of AIDS brought this gritty and protean time and place in American culture to a troubled denouement.. As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film