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Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco

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Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco - Shapiro, Peter
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Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid 'Disco Sucks' campaign at the end of the decade. Featuring artists such as Chic, Sylvester, Donna Summer and Frank Grasso, Turn the Beat Around illustrates why and ...

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Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco 2020, Faber & Faber, London

ISBN-13: 9780571359820

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Paperback

Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco 2009, Faber & Faber, London

ISBN-13: 9780571219230

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Mass-market paperback

Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco 2006, Faber & Faber, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780865479524

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Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco 2005, Faber & Faber, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780571211944

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