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Title Hot stuff : disco and the remaking of american culture / Alice Echols
Author Echols, Alice
Imprint New York : W. W. Norton and Co., 2011

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 Stadsbibl:Ljusets kalender vån 2 Konst, foto, musik, film, teater, sport  781.64 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript xxvi, 338 s. : ill. ; 21 cm
Note "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
Subject Disco music -- United States -- History and criticism
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Music -- Social aspects
Disco (musik) -- Förenta staterna
Populärkultur -- Förenta staterna -- historia -- 1900-talet
Musik -- sociala aspekter
Musiklitteratur-nytt april 2011
Classmark Ijxfea
ISBN/ISSN 0393338916
9780393338911
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