HOT STUFF

HOT STUFF
Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
Alice Echols

In the 1970s, as disco engulfed America, the question, “Do you wanna dance?” became divisive, even explosive. In this incisive history, Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco, assumed to be shallow and disposable, permanently transformed popular music, propelling it into new sonic territory and influencing rap, techno and trance. This account probes the complex relationship between disco and the era’s major movements: gay liberation, feminism and African American rights.  

338 pages, paperback