TURN THE BEAT AROUND / THE SECRET HISTORY OF DISCO

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of p oppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid 'Disco Sucks ' campaig...[Read more]