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Author Lawrence, Tim, 1967- author.
Title Life and death on the New York dance floor, 1980-1983 / Tim Lawrence.
Publisher Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
Copyright date ©2016



Descript 1 online resource (xxi, 578 pages) : illustrations
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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.
Note English.
ISBN 9780822373926 (electronic bk.)
0822373920 (electronic bk.)
9780822361862 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0822361868 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780822362029 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822362023 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Author Lawrence, Tim, 1967- author.
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject 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.
Descript 1 online resource (xxi, 578 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
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.
Note English.
ISBN 9780822373926 (electronic bk.)
0822373920 (electronic bk.)
9780822361862 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0822361868 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780822362029 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822362023 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Author Lawrence, Tim, 1967- author.
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject 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.

Subject 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.
Descript 1 online resource (xxi, 578 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
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.
Note English.
ISBN 9780822373926 (electronic bk.)
0822373920 (electronic bk.)
9780822361862 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0822361868 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780822362029 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822362023 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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