Para sus detractores, la música disco nunca fue más que el desfile de celebridades de Studio 54, la empalagosa música de los Bee Gees o el chico humilde de origen italiano de Fiebre de sábado por la noche que es transportado al firmamento por la sola virtud de su atuendo y pasos…
"A multi-media exploration into the history of electronic music"--Back cover.
Provides a study of the most important musical form of the 1970s that assesses the history of disco music and the cultural, social, and economic milieu of the era that spawned it.
"From the beginning, disco was essentially a shotgun marriage between a newly out-and-proud gay sexuality and the first generation of post-civil rights African Americans, all moving to the serenade of the recently developed synthesizer. Peter Shapiro maps out these converging in…
Provides a study of the most important musical form of the 1970s that assesses the history of disco music and the cultural, social, and economic milieu of the era that spawned it.