Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco by Peter Shapiro ISBN 9780571359820

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Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco by Peter Shapiro - This secret history of disco traces its emergence from late-1960s Black Power and gay scenes...

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Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid ‘Disco Sucks’ campaign at the end of the decade.

Featuring artists such as Chic...

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