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 of soul, the sexual revolution and psychedelia, while it focuses on those changes have emerged in time to primitive boxes rhythm and synthesizers that changed the music landscape forever. While the story of the album is simultaneously the story of the birth of the culture of the DJ, remix, and, ultimately, the disco as we know it today, this book gets the innovative contribution of artists such as Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Giorgio Moroder or Arthur Russell, among many others, and documents the emergence of emblematic clubs like The Loft, Le Jardin or the legendary Paradise Garage that established the canon of what we know as music and dance culture.