Title
Global dance cultures in the 1970s and 1980s : disco heterotopias / Flora Pitrolo, Marko Zubak, editors.
ISBN
9783030919955 (electronic bk.)
3030919951 (electronic bk.)
9783030919948
3030919943
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 345 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-91995-5 doi
Call Number
GV1796.D57 G56 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
793.3/309047
Summary
This book is a critical and necessary contribution to disco studies and to popular music studies more broadly. The volume will find an avid readership among researchers and students in popular music studies and among practitioners and aficionados of disco itself. - Arabella Stanger, University of Sussex, UK This book explores some of disco's other lives which thrived between the 1970s and the 1980s, from oil-boom Nigeria to socialist Czechoslovakia, from post-colonial India to war-torn Lebanon. It charts the translation of disco as a cultural form into musical, geo-political, ideological and sociological landscapes that fall outside of its original conditions of production and reception, capturing the variety of scenes, contexts and reasons for which disco took on diverse dimensions in its global journey. With its deep repercussions in visual culture, gender politics, and successive forms of popular music, art, fashion and style, disco as a musical genre and dance culture is exemplary of how a subversive, marginal scene -- that of queer and Black New York undergrounds in the early 1970s -- turned into a mainstream cultural industry. As it exploded, atomised and travelled, disco served a number of different agendas; its aesthetic rootedness in ideas of pleasure, transgression and escapism and its formal malleability, constructed around a four-on-the-floor beat, allowed it to permeate a variety of local scenes for whom the meaning of disco shifted, sometimes in unexpected and radical ways. Flora Pitrolo is a Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and Syracuse University London. Her work investigates alternative European performance and music cultures of the 1980s, with a special focus on Italy. She publishes both as a scholar and as a journalist, and is active as a DJ and producer in various archival and experimental music scenes. Marko Zubak is a Researcher at the Croatian Institute of History in Zagreb, specialising in popular culture in socialist Eastern Europe. His publications include The Yugoslav Youth Press (1968-1980), and he has curated the exhibitions "Yugoslav Youth Press as Underground Press" and "Stayin' Alive: Socialist Disco Culture."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2022).
Series
Palgrave studies in the history of subcultures and popular music.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030919948
Chapter 1: Introduction. Disco Heterotopias: Other Places, Other Spaces, Other Lives
Chapter 2: Montreal, Funkytown: Two Decades of Disco History
Chapter 3: Dancin' Days: Disco Flashes in 1970s Brazil
Chapter 4: Gimmick! Italo Disco, Copy and Consumption
Chapter 5: Japanese Disco as Pseudo-International Music
Chapter 6: Disco, Dancing, Globalization and Class in 1980s Hindi Cinema
Chapter 7: Dancing Desire, Dancing Revolution: Sexuality and The Politics of Disco in China Since the 1980s
Chapter 8: Non-stop, I Want to Live Non-stop: The Role of Disco is Late Socialist Czechoslovakia
Chapter 9: Yugoslav Disco: The Forgotten Sound of Late Socialism
Chapter 10: Other Voices of the Orient: Lebanese Disco and Nightlife During the Civil War
Chapter 11: Disco and Discontent in Nigeria: A Conversation
Chapter 12: Outer Space, Futurism, and The Quest for Disco Utopia
Chapter 13: Epilogue. Decolonising Disco: Counterculture, Postindustrial Creativity, the 1970s Dance Floor and Disco.
