Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
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"Remarkable. . . . Carried along by prose that is as sleek and slinky as its subject."—Christine Stansell, University of Chicago The New York Times - James Gavin Alice Echols, a professor of American studies and history at Rutgers University and a former disco D.J., knows that most of the music she spun is considered "mindless, repetitive, formulaic and banal." But in her engrossing new book, Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, she portrays that scene as a hotbed of social change—for gays, for women and their sexual rights, for blacks in the record industry. Other writers have done more to evoke the era's sleazy glamour and animal excitement. But Echols…has few peers among music sociologists. Scholarly but fun, Hot Stuff is not just about disco; it re-examines the '70s as a decade of revolution.
Introduction Plastic Fantastic: The Disco Years1 I Hear a Symphony: Black Masculinity and the Disco Turn 12 More, More, More: One and Oneness in Gay Disco 393 Ladies' Night: Women and Disco 714 The Homo Superiors: Disco and the Rise of Gay Macho 1215 Saturday Night Fever: The Little Disco Movie 1596 One Nation under a Thump?: Disco and Its Discontents 195Epilogue: Do It Again 233Notes 241Playlist 303Photograph Credits 307Index 309
