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1 online resource (xxi, 578 pages) : illustrations |
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online resource cr |
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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. |
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ISBN |
9780822373926 (electronic bk.) |
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0822373920 (electronic bk.) |
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9780822361862 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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0822361868 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9780822362029 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0822362023 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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