Rock publications covered the glitterball world begrudgingly andor sneeringly. Too much disco revisionism is driven by an effort to debunk the pervasive view of disco as crassly commercial, exclusionary, and politically regressive. Hot stuff offers a lucid explanation of the confluence of factors that caused disco music to begin, and then explode into the mainstream. Donna summer hot stuff 1979 high quality nomadu55555. Disco and the remaking of american culture essay paper from 12. Hot stuff is a cultural history of disco that is at once scholarly and popular.
Once dubbed a dreaded musical disease by the backlash brigade love saves the day, 374, disco has evidently regained something of its contagiousness. Thus invariably, echols provides a surprising take on familiar scenes by pointing out potholes and pitfalls of late twentiethcentury american culture, exploring regions of experience previously overlooked or discounted. She is a former disco deejay, and author of the acclaimed biography of janis joplin, hot stuff is a new book about disco, the music and its impact on worldwide culture by. Histories of disco emphasize the antagonism between rock and disco, and with good reason. A history of american dance music culture, 19701979 2003, and peter shapiros journalistic survey, turn the beat around.
The martian extended deleted scene mark arrives at earth 2015 matt damon scifi movie hd duration. Alice echols american studies scholar and former deejay alice echols captures the experience of the disco yearson dance floors, at the movies, in the streets, and beneath the sheets. This magazine includes a wide range of interesting articles on disco, jazz, rap, hiphop, funk, house, rollerdisco and. In hot stuff, she finds disco to be crucial for understanding what happened in 1970s america. Jazz dance and jazz gymnastics, including disco dancing. Taking its title from a donna summer charttopper as well as one of the rolling stones early forays into disco, hot stuff is a thoroughly researched, scholarly credible and fiercely. Discos, of course, are almost as old as rock n roll.
Hot stuff is a song by american singer donna summer from her seventh studio album bad girls 1979, produced by english producer pete bellotte and italian producer giorgio moroder and released as the lead single from bad girls on april, 1979, through casablanca records. The ironed chinos, cashmere sweaters, and penny loafers that had been favored by many gay men gave way to 501 buttonfly levis, flannel shirts, aviator fight jackets, work boots, and beltdangling key chains. Welcome to this first edition of the new hot stuff magazine, issued on issuu. Instead, andriotes history of disco is too brief and incomplete.
Disco and the remaking of american culture cover interview of march 28, 2010. But hot stuffs discussion of gay sociability, sexuality, and masculinity is a case study of the way that music shapes us. Thus invariably, echols provides a surprising take on familiar. But it also questions the depiction of disco emerging in what i call disco studies.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading hot stuff. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read hot stuff. The book challenges the stereotypical view of disco as the encapsulation of the me decadehedonistic, narcissistic, and forgettable. Disco and the remaking of american culture is an interpretative rather than a comprehensive history, one that focuses on these very shifts in identity and representation and the debates they triggered. Alice echolss hot stuff is the third such work of note to appear in recent years, following tim lawrences oral history, love saves the day. Hot stuff disco is a professional dj and disco service with over 30 years experience and is available for hire across west and central scotland. Disco and the remaking of american culture, probes disco s hotness, by which she means disco s upending of americas racial rules and gender and sexual conventions. Nothing seems to conjure up the seventies quite so effectively as disco. Scholarly but fun, hot stuff is not just about disco. Through the lens of the music and its ethos, a former dj examines what made the folly of the disco years so indelible. Disco and the remaking of american culture kindle edition by echols, alice.
Toward a bilingual american culture suny series in latin american and iberian thought and culture casserole crazy. Recently, i attended a wedding reception during which a. Hot stuff pulsates with a style as relentless as the music it analyzes and the personalities who brought that sound to the airwaves, clubs, boardrooms and bedrooms. The book charts discos trajectoryfrom its steamy beginnings in manhattans gay clubs through its bloblike takeover of pop music, to its apparent collapseprobing throughout what made disco so compelling to some and so troubling to others. Carried along by prose that is as sleek and slinky as its subject. Christine stansell, university of chicago, hot stuff, disco and the remaking of. What was it about this music that made it such hot stuff. Still, any history of disco is better than nothing to this dyedinthewool disco fan and, within its limitations, hot stuff is ok. A cleareyed encapsulation of what made this seemingly facile music so complex, compelling, and prescient it all adds up to a thumping good read. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. It tried to have a little more musicality, but it was getting into that standardized disco mode, the usual drum and bass part. Hot stuff disco and the remaking of american culture alice echols author w. Hot stuff is a new book about disco, the music and its impact on worldwide culture by alice echols, who is professor of american studies and history at rutgers university.
Alice echols usc dana and david dornsife college of. Hot stuff magazine with disco funkjazzsoulhip hop and vintage articles. Disco and the remaking of american culture by alice echols. She worked at the rubaiyat discotheque in ann arbor, mich. Disco and the remaking of american culture ebook written by alice echols. Disco and the remaking of american culture, published by w. Hot stuff 12 version keith forsey, pete bellotte, harold faltermeyer. They said on that one, do the traditional disco thing, basswise.
A brief history of discodance music kindle edition by andriote, johnmanuel. Christine stansell, university of chicago, hot stuff, disco and the remaking of american culture, alice echols, 9780393338911. Disco thumps back to life in this pulsating exploration of the culture an. Thus invariably, echols provides a surprising take on familiar scenes by pointing out potholes and pitfalls of late twentiethcentury american culture, exploring regions of. The song hot stuff came out in 79 not 78 and thats essential it was the year disco died, or, if you will. This magazine will have a wide range of interesting articles on. The book describes how as disco took hold, gay style shifted. In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed america. Echols american studies and historyrutgers univ shaky ground. Find out more about dj stu mac and hot stuff disco here. I was a punk in high school and later in life and i forswore the corporate driven massproduced junk food that was disco with all the fervor of a teenager. In this incisive history, alice echols reveals the ways in which disco, assumed to be shallow and disposable, permanently transformed. Ascap, reel muzik werks music publishing, latinautor, warner. Vinyl 7 donna summer hot stuff 1979, 56, vinyl discogs.
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