Lawrence Tim Lawrence

Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373926
• Artikelnr.: 54781909

Autorenporträt

Tim Lawrence is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London and the author of Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970–1979 and Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973–1992, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction  1
Part I. 1980: The Recalibration of Disco
1. Stylistic Coherence Didn't Matter at All  11
2. The Basement Den at Club 57  30
3. Danceteria: Midtown Feels the Downtown Storm  48
4. Subterranean Dance  60
5. The Bronx-Brooklyn Approach  73
6. The Sound Became More Real  92
7. Major-Label Calculations  105
8. The Saint Peter of Discos  111
9. Lighting the Fuse  122
Part II. 1981: Accelerating Toward Pluralism
10. Explosion of Clubs  135
11. Artistic Maneuvers in the Dark  155
12. Downton Configures Hip Hop  170
13. The Sound of a Transcendent Future  184
14. The New Urban Street Sound  199
15. It Wasn't Rock and Roll and It Wasn't Disco  210
16. Frozen in Time or Freed into Infinity  221
17. It Felt Like the Whole City Was Listening  232
18. Shrouded Abatements and Mysterious Deaths  239
Part III. 1982: Dance Culture Seizes the City
19. All We Had Was the Club  245
20. Inverted Pyramid  257
21. Roxy Music  271
22. The Garage: Everybody Was Listening to Everything  279
23. The Planet Rock Groove  288
24. Techno Funksters  304
25. Taste Segues  314
26. Stormy Weather  320
27. Cusp of an Important Fusion  331
Part IV. 1983: The Genesis of Division
28. Cristal for Everyone  343
29. Dropping the Pretense and the Flashy Suits  369
30. Straighten It Out with Larry Levan  381
31. Stripped-Down and Scrambled Sounds  400
32. We Became Part of This Energy  419
33. Sex and Dying  430
34. We Got the Hits, We Got the Future  438
35. Behind the Groove  449
Epilogue. Life, Death, and the Hereafter  458
Notes  485
Selected Discography  515
Selected Filmography  529
Selected Bibliography  521
Index  537