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Hot stuff : disco and the remaking of American culture by Echols, Alice is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hot stuff : disco and the remaking of American culture about?
Disco thumps back to life in this pulsating exploration of the culture and politics of the glitterball world. In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the once-innocent question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What was it about this much-maligned music that made it such hot stuff? In this incisive history, Alice Echols captures the felt experience of the Disco Yearson dance floors both fabulous and tacky, at the movies, in the streets, and beneath the sheets. Disco may have presented itself as shallow and disposablethe platforms, polyester, and plastic vibe of it allbut Echols shows that it was inseparable from the emergence of gay macho, a rising black middle class, and a growing, if equivocal, openness about female sexuality. The disco scene carved out a haven for gay men who reclaimed their sexuality on dance floors where they had once been surveilled and harassed; it thrust black women onto center stage as some of the genres most prominent stars; and it paved the way for the opening of Studio 54 and the viral popularity of the shoestring-budget Saturday Night Fever , a movie that challenged traditional notions of masculinity, even for heterose
Who reads Hot stuff : disco and the remaking of American culture?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Echols, Alice
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393066753
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Fiction, Music, History
- Rating
- 3.74 / 5 (157 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14