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Life and death on the New York dance floor, 1980-1983 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawrence, Tim, 1967- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Dance music > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > History and criticism.
Popular music > New York (State) > New York > 1981-1990 > History and criticism.
Popular culture > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > History and criticism.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • You can't just play punk music!
  • The basement den at Club 57
  • Danceteria: Midtown feels the downtown storm
  • Subterranean dance
  • The Bronx-Brooklyn approach
  • The sound became more real
  • Major-label calculations
  • The Saint Peter of discos
  • Lighting the fuse
  • Explosion of clubs
  • Artistic maneuvers in the dark
  • Downtown configures hip hop
  • The sound of a transcendent future
  • The new urban street sound
  • It wasn't rock and roll and it wasn't disco
  • Frozen in time or freed into infinity
  • It felt like the whole city was listening
  • Shrouded abatements and mysterious deaths
  • All we had was the club
  • Inverted pyramid
  • Roxy music
  • The garage: everybody was listening to everything
  • The planet rock groove
  • Techno funksters
  • Taste segues
  • Stormy weather
  • Cusp of an important fusion
  • Cristal for everyone
  • Dropping the pretense and the flashy suits
  • Straighten it out with Larry Levan
  • Stripped-down and scrambled sounds
  • We became part of this energy
  • Sex and dying
  • We got the hits, we got the future
  • Behind the groove
  • Epilogue: life, death, and the hereafter.