Description
| Product ID: | 9780571219230 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Turn the Beat Around |
| Subtitle: | The Secret History of Disco |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Shapiro |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Popular music, Rock & Pop music, c 1970 to c 1980 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid ''Disco Sucks'' campaign at the end of the decade. |
| Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-05-07 |