Product Description: The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the '70s and early '80s were an extraordinarily talented group of women who dazzled the world with an exciting blend of elegance, soulful passion and gutsy fire. In this book of original interviews, 32 of these singers tell their stories, explaining how they view their music, careers, connection to gay audiences, and their places in dance music history...read more

Product Description: Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the past four decades. This volume presents the rich array of scholarship that has sprung up in response...read more

Provides a study of the most important musical form of the 1970s that assesses the history of disco music and the cultural, social, and economic milieu of the era that spawned it.

A fascinating, entertaining history of disco music examines the musical and cultural influences that transformed an era, the fashions and style of the period, disco's leading performers, and its long-term effects on American popular music and culture. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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