Turn the Beat Around

Turn the Beat Around
by Peter Shapiro

Turn the Beat Around
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Author: Peter Shapiro
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-06
ISBN: 0571219233
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Faber & Faber

Summary of Turn the Beat Around

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, Sylvester, Donna Summer and Frank Grasso, "Turn the Beat Around" illustrates why and how disco changed the face of popular culture forever.

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