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Disco Dance
Contributor(s): Ortiz, Lori (Author)
ISBN: 0313377464     ISBN-13: 9780313377464
Publisher: Greenwood
OUR PRICE:   $42.57  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Dance - Popular
- Social Science | Popular Culture
Dewey: 793.33
LCCN: 2010052570
Series: American Dance Floor
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (0.97 lbs) 192 pages
 
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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.