For most of the US, disco died in 1979. Triggered by the infamous
"Disco Demolition" night at Comiskey Park in Chicago on July 12,
1979, a backlash made the word "disco" an overnight punchline.
Major labels dropped disco artists and producers, and those
mainstream musicians who had jumped on the bandwagon just as
quickly threw themselves off. Gay men, however, continued to dance,
and in the gay enclave of the Castro District in San Francisco,
enterprising gay DJs, record producers, and musicians started their
own small dance music record labels to make up for the lack of new,
danceable music. Almost immediately this music reached far beyond
the Bay, with Megatone Records, Moby Dick Records, and other labels
achieving worldwide success, creating the world's first gay-owned,
gay-produced music for a dancing audience. This music reflected a
new way of life, a world apart and a culture of sexual liberation
for gay men especially. With Menergy, author Louis Niebur offers a
project of reconstruction in order to restore these lost figures to
their rightful place in the legacy of 20th-century popular music.
Menergy is the product of years of research, with dozens of
personal interviews, archival research drawing upon hundreds of
contemporary journals, photographs, bar rags, diaries, nightclub
ephemera, and, most importantly, the recordings of the San
Francisco artists themselves. With its combination of popular music
theory, cultural analysis, queer theory and gender studies, and
traditional musical analysis, the book will appeal to readers in
queer history, popular music history, and electronic dance music.
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