DISCO!

NOTE EDITORE

DISCO! Music, Image, Dance takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring disco's untold stories--sonic, visual, and kinetic--from its popular heyday to its many afterlives. The book attests to disco's irrepressibility in cultural practices from the 1970s to the 2020s, tracing its histories and instantiations as these traverse geographies, affects, and memories, and exploring the reaches of disco as an expansive field of music, image, and dance. Illustrating how disco shows up in multiple and surprising ways across its times and spaces, chapters track the ubiquity of disco not only in relation to music and nightlife but also fashion, film, literature, poetry, dance, performance art, digital media, museums, exercise, activism, and community. DISCO! offers an expanded and necessarily ambivalent view of the value of disco-its embrace of both the ridiculous and the sublime, and its involvement in both progressive and reactionary social tendencies. Stretching disco studies towards a more capacious logic of valuation, contributors reveal disco to be as frivolous as it is urgent, as fanciful as it is (under)grounded, as much to do with oppression as liberation. DISCO! attests to the undisciplined and inclusive attention which disco, as a tentacular global cultural phenomenon, duly deserves and requires.

SOMMARIO

Chapter 1 - Cinderella in Eurodiscoland: Donna Summer's Once upon a Time and the Progressive Rock ConnectionChapter 2 - In Defense of Dalida: Nostalgia, Dancing, and Vulgarity in French DiscoChapter 3 - The First Days of Disco: Nostalgia, Fire Island, and Dancer from the DanceChapter 4 - The Best Minds of My Generation Go Bang!: On Arthur Russell and Allen GinsbergChapter 5 - June 1982, from Disco to Dance: Progressive Urban Contemporary and the Aesthetics of PlayChapter 6 - Disco as Community, Space, and Memorialization: Jimmy Somerville Fights AIDS in Four AlbumsChapter 7 - Dancing in the Dead Boys' Club: 1990s Retro-Disco and the Memory of AIDSChapter 8 - Reflections on Aesthetics and Black Excellence in the Disco EraChapter 9 - "Caught in the Act": Village People and the Crossover of Gay MachoChapter 10 - Disco's Suck: Discophobia and the Foreclosure of Blow Job Temporality in Looking for Mr. GoodbarChapter 11 - Contraband Nights: Disco and Film Culture in 1980s BombayChapter 12 - Between the Discothèque and the Screen: The Role of Disco in Late Socialist CzechoslovakiaChapter 13 - Disco as Open Image: Internet Sightings, Cryptic Denotations, and Disco Dancing GirlsChapter 14 - Brown Disco!: madison moore in Conversation with Nao BustamanteChapter 15 - The English Civil (Disco) War Northern Soul, Club Culture, and Saturday Night Fever in Wigan and Wolverhampton, 1973-1981Chapter 16 - Rushin' in the SkyChapter 17 - Burn, Baby, Burn-Disco Aerobics!: Working It and Working OutChapter 18 - All about My Mother: A Family Narrative of Nostalgia and Time-Space in Chinese DiscoChapter 19 - Disco Pessimism: A School Disco at Tate ModernChapter 20 - "The Land of Disco": Arshia Haq's Insurgent Curation at Discostan

AUTORE

Mimi Haddon is Associate Professor in Music at the University of Sussex. Michael Lawrence is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. Arabella Stanger is Associate Professor in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Sussex.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780197620830
• Dimensioni: 234 x 33.3 x 156 mm Ø 907 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 76 b&w halftones
• Pagine Arabe: 528