"Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the past four decades. This volume presents the rich array of scholarship that has sprung up in response. Cutting-edge perspectives from a broad range o…
Introduction: Once upon a time -- 1. Sweet romance: a tale of two discos -- 2. Faster and faster to nowhere: fairy tales and the black urban experience -- 3. Working the midnight shift: life and music inside the Munich machine -- Brief interlude: a man like you or how to get you…
"Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella story,…