Hot Stuff - Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and trance. She probes the complex relationship between disco and the era's major movements: gay liberation, feminism, and African American rights. You won't say "disco sucks" as disco thumps back to life in this pulsating look at the culture and politics that gave rise to the music.

About the author

Alice Echols is Barbra Streisand Professor of contemporary gender studies and professor of history at the University of Southern California. A former disco deejay, she is the author of four books including Hot Stuff and the acclaimed biography of Janis Joplin, Scars of Sweet Paradise.

Summary

"A thumping good read." —The Atlantic

Product details

• Authors: Alice Echols, Echols Alice
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2011
• EAN: 9780393338911
• ISBN: 978-0-393-33891-1
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 336 g
• Illustrations: 20 black-and-white photographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; USA, Rock, Musik: Stile und Gattungen, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Musikkritik, MUSIC / History & Criticism, Music / Songbooks, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance, United States of America, USA, Pop Music, Popular Music, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980