Disco may be the most universally derided musical form to come
about in the past forty years. Yet, like its pop cultural peers punk and
hip hop, it was born of a period of profound social and economic
upheaval. In Turn the Beat Around,
critic and journalist Peter Shapiro traces the history of disco music
and culture. From the outset, disco was essentially a shotgun marriage
between a newly out and proud gay sexuality and the first generation of
post-civil rights African Americans, all to the serenade of the recently
developed synthesizer. Shapiro maps out these converging influences, as
well as disco's cultural antecedents in Europe, looks at the history of
DJing, explores the mainstream disco craze at it's apex, and details
the long shadow cast by disco's performers and devotees on today's
musical landscape.
One part cultural study, one part urban history, and one part glitter-pop confection, Turn the Beat Around is the most comprehensive study of the Me Generation to date.
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