A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits – books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. 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 how disco changed the face of popular culture forever.
ISBN: 978-0-571-35982-0
