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1 online resource |
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You can't just play punk music! -- The basement den at Club 57 -- Danceteria: Midtown feels the downtown storm -- Subterranean dance -- The Bronx-Brooklyn approach -- The sound became more real -- Major-label calculations -- The Saint Peter of discos -- Lighting the fuse -- Explosion of clubs -- Artistic maneuvers in the dark -- Downtown configures hip hop -- The sound of a transcendent future -- The new urban street sound -- It wasn't rock and roll and it wasn't disco -- Frozen in time or freed into infinity -- It felt like the whole city was listening -- Shrouded abatements and mysterious deaths -- All we had was the club -- Inverted pyramid -- Roxy music -- The garage: everybody was listening to everything -- The planet rock groove -- Techno funksters -- Taste segues -- Stormy weather -- Cusp of an important fusion -- Cristal for everyone -- Dropping the pretense and the flashy suits -- Straighten it out with Larry Levan -- Stripped-down and scrambled sounds -- We became part of this energy -- Sex and dying -- We got the hits, we got the future -- Behind the groove -- Epilogue: life, death, and the hereafter |
| Summary |
In Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor Tim Lawrence examines the city's party, dance, music, and art culture between 1980 and 1983, tracing the rise, apex, and fall of this inventive, vibrant, and tumultuous scene |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Dance music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1981-1990 -- History and criticism
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Popular culture -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Dancing -- history
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- ethnology
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Electronic.
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Music.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Dance music.
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Popular culture.
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Popular music.
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Music.
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New York City https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009519 |
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New York (State) -- New York.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016008598 |
| ISBN |
9780822373926 |
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0822373920 |
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