Title Menergy : San Francisco's gay disco sound / Louis Niebur

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Introduction. Setting Up the Sound -- Disco, the Castro and Gay Liberation -- Liberation for Some : The Continued Expansion of Gay San Francisco in the late 1970s -- Sylvester's Fantasy Comes True -- The First Wave of the San Francisco Sound -- Blecman and Hedges -- Disco's Dead/Not Dead -- The San Francisco Sound Thrives -- New Heights -- Trouble in Paradise -- Dancing with AIDS -- Everything Falls Apart -- In Retrospect Summary "Menergy tells the story of a "post-disco" recording industry in San Francisco between the years 1978-1984. For most of America, disco died in 1979. Gay men, however, continued to dance, and in the gay enclave of the Castro neighborhood 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. These independent labels' music did more than copy what the larger industry had been doing, however. Instead, the upstart companies built upon the musical experiments their roster of local musicians and producers had been exploring over the last several years, developing a distinctive style of its own. Known as "high energy," the music reveled in electronics, fast tempos, disco and DJ culture, and, above all, gay liberation as it had emerged over the previous decade in the Castro neighborhood by so called "Castro clones" (a gay subculture of exaggerated masculinity with a strong presence in the city's nightlife). The sound, like the new revolutionary ethos, derived its aesthetic from San Francisco's unique configuration of elements, but immediately this music had a reach far beyond the Bay, with Megatone Records, Moby Dick Records, and other labels achieving worldwide success with San Francisco artists such as Sylvester, Patrick Cowley, Paul Parker, Lisa, Loverde, and Jolo, creating the world's first gay-owned, gay-produced music for a dancing audience"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 15, 2022) Subject Disco music -- California -- San Francisco -- History and criticism Electronic dance music -- California -- San Francisco -- History and criticism Sound recording industry -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century Gay men -- California -- San Francisco -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Disco music Electronic dance music Gay men -- Social life and customs Sound recording industry SUBJECT Castro (San Francisco, Calif.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99072916 Subject California -- San Francisco California -- San Francisco -- Castro Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021036240 ISBN 9780197511114 0197511112 0197511090 9780197511107 0197511104 9780197511091

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