The Last Disco

Author : Sean Murray
Publisher : Bonnier Books UK
ISBN 13 : 180418506X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Disco written by Sean Murray and published by Bonnier Books UK. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragic fire at the Stardust nightclub on Valentine's Day, 1981 in a working-class suburb of Dublin caused the deaths of 48 young people, with an average age of just 19 years. After years of families and survivors fighting to find out what really happened, new inquests held in 2024 finally revealed the full story. In 1981, the Stardust nightclub in Dublin was a beacon for the city's nightlife - until it became a nightmare. On that fateful Valentine's Day the dance floor became a scene of horror, as flames engulfed the venue, claiming the lives of 48 young people and leaving the survivors scarred forever. In this gripping account the harrowing true story is revealed, citing new evidence brought forward during recent inquests in the relentless pursuit of justice. Through the eyes of the survivors, the families and investigators, compiled with meticulous research and compassionate portrayals of their voices, this poignant book honours the memories of those who were lost, while shedding light on the tragedy that still shocks the nation to this day.

Author : Whit Stillman
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374183394
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Disco written by Whit Stillman and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 2000 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last days of the disco era, in the early 1980s, a popular dance club becomes the center of nightlife for a group of not-quite innocent young people new to Manhattan.

Author : Nick Middleton
Publisher : Sinclair Stevenson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia written by Nick Middleton and published by Sinclair Stevenson. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rejsebeskrivelser fra to besøg i Det Ydre Mongoli

Author : Anthony Haden-Guest
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497695554
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Party written by Anthony Haden-Guest and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting memoir of disco-era nightlife and the outrageous goings-on behind the doors of New York City’s most famous and exclusive nightclub In the disco days and nights of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, the place to be was Studio 54. Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, and Bianca Jagger were among the nightly assortment of A-list celebrity regulars consorting with New York’s young, wild, and beautiful. Studio 54 was a place where almost nothing was taboo, from nonstop dancing and drinking beneath the coke-dusted neon moon to drugs and sex in the infamous unisex restrooms to the outrageous money-skimming activities taking place in the office of the studio’s flamboyant co-owner Steve Rubell. Author Anthony Haden-Guest was there on opening night in 1977 and over the next decade spent many late nights and early mornings basking in the strobe-lit wonder. But The Last Party is much more than a fascinating account of the scandals, celebrities, crimes, and extreme excesses encouraged within the notorious Manhattan nightspot. Haden-Guest brings an entire era of big-city glitz and unapologetic hedonism to breathtaking life, recalling a vibrant New York night world at once exhilarating and dangerous before the terrible, sobering dawn of the age of AIDS.

Author : Alice Echols
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393077012
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture written by Alice Echols and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disco thumps back to life in this pulsating look at the culture and politics that gave rise to the music. In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, “Do you wanna dance?” became divisive, even explosive. What was it about this music that made it such hot stuff? In this incisive history, Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco, assumed to be shallow and disposable, permanently transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno, and trance. This account probes the complex relationship between disco and the era’s major movements: gay liberation, feminism, and African American rights. But it never loses sight of the era’s defining soundtrack, spotlighting the work of precursors James Brown and Isaac Hayes, its dazzling divas Donna Summer and the women of Labelle, and some of its lesser-known but no less illustrious performers like Sylvester. You’ll never say “disco sucks” again after reading this fascinating account of the music you thought you hated but can’t stop dancing to.

Author : Lori Ortiz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313377472
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disco Dance written by Lori Ortiz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the fascinating untold story behind what is collectively and disputably called "disco dancing," and the incredible effect that the phenomenon had on America—in New York City and beyond. Disco is a dance and musical style that still influences these art forms today. Many think that disco "died" completely after the 1970s drew to a close, but in actuality people continued dancing in the clubs after the very word "disco" became an anathema. Disco Dance explains why disco was more than just a dance form or a fad, describing many of the clubs—in New York City especially—where the disco subculture thrived. The author examines the origins of disco music, its evolution, and how young people adapted the dance styles of the day to the disco beat, charting how this dance of celebration and rebellion during troubling times became subject to ridicule by the end of the decade.

Author : James Berardinelli
Publisher : Justin, Charles & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1932112405
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reel Views 2 written by James Berardinelli and published by Justin, Charles & Co.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and updated for 2005! Includes a new chapter on the best special edition DVDs and a new chapter on finding hidden easter egg features.

Author : Anna Peppard
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477321632
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supersex written by Anna Peppard and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited Collection From Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both. From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral panic. Yet though it has inspired jokes and innuendos, accusations of moral depravity, and sporadic academic discourse, the topic of superhero sexuality is like superhero sexuality itself—seemingly obvious yet conspicuously absent. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero is the first scholarly book specifically devoted to unpacking the superhero genre’s complicated relationship with sexuality. Exploring sexual themes and imagery within mainstream comic books, television shows, and films as well as independent and explicitly pornographic productions catering to various orientations and kinks, Supersex offers a fresh—and lascivious—perspective on the superhero genre’s historical and contemporary popularity. Across fourteen essays touching on Superman, Batman, the X-Men, and many others, Anna F. Peppard and her contributors present superhero sexuality as both dangerously exciting and excitingly dangerous, encapsulating the superhero genre’s worst impulses and its most productively rebellious ones. Supersex argues that sex is at the heart of our fascination with superheroes, even—and sometimes especially—when the capes and tights stay on.

Author : Molefi K. Asante
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312373269
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's Bigger Than Hip Hop written by Molefi K. Asante and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most important writers of his generation (Charles Fuller) comes this bold look at the rise of a new post hip hop generation. 30 b&w photos throughout.

Author : Fred Everett Maus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197607527
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness written by Fred Everett Maus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and queerness interact in many different ways. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness brings together many topics and scholarly disciplines, reflecting the diversity of current research and methodology. Each of the book's six sections exemplifies a particular rhetoric of queer music studies. The section "Kinds of Music" explores queer interactions with specific musics such as EDM, hip hop, and country. "Versions" explores queer meanings that emerge in the creation of a version of a pre-existing text, for instance in musical settings of Biblical texts or practices of karaoke. "Voices and Sounds" turns in various ways to the materiality of music and sound. "Lives" focuses on interactions of people's lives with music and queerness. "Histories" addresses moments in the past, beginning with times when present conceptualizations of sexuality had not yet developed and moving to cases studies of more recent history, including the creation of pop songs in response to HIV/AIDS and the Eurovision song contest. The final section, "Cross-cultural Queerness," asks how to understand gender and sexuality in locations where recent Euro-American concepts may not be appropriate.