 Saturday night forever: the story of disco.
Author: Jones, Alan Published: 2005 Disco started in obscure underground clubs as a glamour-filled reaction to the plodding, self-indulgent rock music of the late '60s, and took off in the excitement-parched early '70s. Created by people marginalised by their colour, race, sexuality or class, the music and its attendant lifestyle inevitably became watered down and distorted once it slipped from the control of small independent record labels and became a worldwide craze. The authors, by exploring such diverse strands as Eurodisc and roller disco, gay disco, and disco fashions, drugs, and clubs, largely in the USA, uncover the multi-layered genre in all its glory. |
