La historia secreta del disco

Sexualidad e integración racial en la pista de baile

La historia secreta del disco - Peter Shapiro - Caja Negra Editora
Publisher name: 
Caja Negra Editora
Year of publication: 
2012
Pages: 
416
Binding: 
Rustic with flaps

To his detractors, disco was never more than a parade of celebrities Studio 54, the cloying music of the Bee Gees or humble guy of Italian origin Fever of Saturday night which is carried into the sky by the sole virtue of their attire and dance moves. However, in this book Peter Shapiro reveals that behind the show of narcissism, indulgence and frivolity rarely told story is hidden, the hidden history of a genre born from the convergence of marginal cultures of homosexuals, blacks and Latin and Italian immigrants, in a time when the failure of the hippie utopia had led to exclusion and gang warfare. "Glamour understood as an act of rebellion", the album gave a new meaning to the idea of ​​community by promoting racial, sexual and class integration on the dance floor.

Shapiro and traces the origin of the disco culture in the struggle for civil rights, Black Power, the golden age...read more

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Book: La historia secreta del disco

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