Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s - Disco Heterotopias (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book explores some of disco's other lives which thrived between the 1970s and the 1980s, from oil-boom Nigeria to socialist Czechoslovakia, from post-colonial India to war-torn Lebanon. It charts the translation of disco as a cultural form into musical, geo-political, ideological and sociological landscapes that fall outside of its original conditions of production and reception, capturing the variety of scenes, contexts and reasons for which disco took on diverse dimensions in its global journey. With its deep repercussions in visual culture, gender politics, and successive forms of popular music, art, fashion and style, disco as a musical genre and dance culture is exemplary of how a subversive, marginal scene - that of queer and Black New York undergrounds in the early 1970s - turned into a mainstream cultural industry. As it exploded, atomised and travelled, disco served a number of different agendas; its aesthetic rootedness in ideas of pleasure, transgression and escapism and its formal malleability, constructed around a four-on-the-floor beat, allowed it to permeate a variety of local scenes for whom the meaning of disco shifted, sometimes in unexpected and radical ways.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music
Release date:	March 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Flora Pitrolo • Marko Zubak
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	345
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-091994-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > General Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-091994-3
Barcode:	9783030919948

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