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Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983 (Paperback) Loot Price: R691
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Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983 (Paperback): Tim Lawrence

Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983 (Paperback)

Tim Lawrence

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As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city's subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification, Reaganomics, corporate intrusion, and the spread of AIDS brought this gritty and protean time and place in American culture to a troubled denouement.

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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2016
Authors: Tim Lawrence
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6202-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Electronic musical instruments
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > Gay studies (Gay men)
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Music > Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles > Electronic musical instruments
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LSN: 0-8223-6202-3
Barcode: 9780822362029

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