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Turn the Beat Around
Peter Shapiro
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Description for Turn the Beat Around
Paperback. Featuring artists such as Chic, Sylvester, Donna Summer and Frank Grasso, this book illustrates why and how disco changed the face of popular culture forever. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 300.
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.
Featuring artists such as Chic, Sylvester, Donna Summer and Frank Grasso, Turn the Beat Around illustrates why and how disco changed the face of popular culture forever.
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571219230
SKU
V9780571219230
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About Peter Shapiro
Peter Shapiro is a freelance music critic and journalist. He has written for a number of magazines and newspapers, including Spin, Urb, Music Week, Uncut, Vibe, The Wire and The Times.
Reviews for Turn the Beat Around
"'A complete triumph. He expertly excavates the history of one of the central genres of modern popular music.' John McTernan, Scotland on Sunday"