DISCO!
Music, Image, Dance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 October 2025
- ISBN 9780197620830
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages528 pages
- Size 234x156x33 mm
- Weight 907 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 76 b&w halftones 688
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Short description:
DISCO! explores the many facets of disco culture as a historical cultural phenomenon with an immediate and ongoing global impact. The book is organised around three main areas -music, image, and dance - with which it surveys a broad range of both well-known and less familiar disco figures, spaces, texts, traditions and legacies. The volume includes twenty chapters and interviews that examine specific singers and groups; analyse various films and visual artefacts; investigate nightclubs and other spaces where disco happened or happens; explore the many meanings that have clustered around disco; and interrogate debates that revolve around disco.
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DISCO! Music, Image, Dance takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring disco's untold stories--sonic, visual, and kinetic--from its popular heyday to its many afterlives. The book attests to disco's irrepressibility in cultural practices from the 1970s to the 2020s, tracing its histories and instantiations as these traverse geographies, affects, and memories, and exploring the reaches of disco as an expansive field of music, image, and dance.
Illustrating how disco shows up in multiple and surprising ways across its times and spaces, chapters track the ubiquity of disco not only in relation to music and nightlife but also fashion, film, literature, poetry, dance, performance art, digital media, museums, exercise, activism, and community. DISCO! offers an expanded and necessarily ambivalent view of the value of disco-its embrace of both the ridiculous and the sublime, and its involvement in both progressive and reactionary social tendencies.
Stretching disco studies towards a more capacious logic of valuation, contributors reveal disco to be as frivolous as it is urgent, as fanciful as it is (under)grounded, as much to do with oppression as liberation. DISCO! attests to the undisciplined and inclusive attention which disco, as a tentacular global cultural phenomenon, duly deserves and requires.
Table of Contents:
Prelude: Put Your Body in It: Disco, Divas and Dance Studies, Melissa Blanco Borelli
Section I. Music
Cinderella in Eurodiscoland: Donna Summer's Once upon a Time and the Progressive Rock Connection
In Defense of Dalida: Nostalgia, Dancing, and Vulgarity in French Disco
The First Days of Disco: Nostalgia, Fire Island, and Dancer from the Dance
The Best Minds of My Generation Go Bang!: On Arthur Russell and Allen Ginsberg
June 1982, from Disco to Dance: Progressive Urban Contemporary and the Aesthetics of Play
Disco as Community, Space, and Memorialization: Jimmy Somerville Fights AIDS in Four Albums
Dancing in the Dead Boys' Club: 1990s Retro-Disco and the Memory of AIDS
Section II. Image
Reflections on Aesthetics and Black Excellence in the Disco Era
"Caught in the Act": Village People and the Crossover of Gay Macho
Disco's Suck: Discophobia and the Foreclosure of Blow Job Temporality in Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Contraband Nights: Disco and Film Culture in 1980s Bombay
Between the Discothèque and the Screen: The Role of Disco in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia
Disco as Open Image: Internet Sightings, Cryptic Denotations, and Disco Dancing Girls
Brown Disco!: madison moore in Conversation with Nao Bustamante
Section III. Dance
The English Civil (Disco) War Northern Soul, Club Culture, and Saturday Night Fever in Wigan and Wolverhampton, 1973-1981
Rushin' in the Sky
Burn, Baby, Burn-Disco Aerobics!: Working It and Working Out
All about My Mother: A Family Narrative of Nostalgia and Time-Space in Chinese Disco
Disco Pessimism: A School Disco at Tate Modern
"The Land of Disco": Arshia Haq's Insurgent Curation at Discostan
Afterword: Disco! After the Dance
