Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 1 July 2021
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501355462
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages144 pages
- Size 164x120x10 mm
- Weight 140 g
- Language English 166
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Long description:
Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella story, it is set in the then contemporary world of New York disco and takes the listener on a journey from urban isolation and deep despair to joy and vindication, all filtered through the mind of its naï¿1⁄2ve and fantasy-prone protagonist.
As well as charting the production of the album within the legendary Munich Machine in Germany, this book digs deep into the album's rich themes and subtexts. Approaching the book from inventive angles, the four essays within the book act as a prism connecting the reader to the classical aspirations of Eurodisco, the history of the black fairy tale and a queer knowledge that reads Summer's Cinderella tale in some surprising ways.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Once Upon A Time
1. Sweet Romance: A Tale of Two Discos
2. Faster and Faster to Nowhere: Fairy Tales and the Black Urban Experience
3. Working the Midnight Shift: Life and Music Inside the Munich Machine
Brief Interlude: A Man Like You or How to Get Your Man
4. Fairy Tale High: A Personal Reading of Once Upon A Time
Happily Ever After: An Invitation
