Life and death on the New York dance floor, 1980-1983 / Tim Lawrence.

  • Lawrence, Tim, 1967-
Date:
2016
  • Books

About this work

Description

"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. [This book] 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"--Page 4 of cover.

Publication/Creation

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2016.

Physical description

xxi, 578 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

1980 : the recalibration of disco. Stylistic coherence didn't matter at all -- 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
1981 : accelerating toward pluralism. 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
1982 : dance culture seizes the city. 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
1983 : the genesis of division. 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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-535) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JKK.623.AA9
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780822361862
  • 0822361868
  • 9780822362029
  • 0822362023