Disco: The Music, The Times, The Era

by Johnny Morgan, Gloria Gaynor (Foreword)

This is the ultimate compendium for the dancing queens and the hustle-happy who put on their boogie shoes, shook their groove thing, and felt the night fever!
From its beginnings in Paris, disco quickly spread around the world, taking hold of a small club on L.A.'s Sunset Strip and ultimately becoming a lifestyle that influenced everything from music and dancing to movies to fashion. Disco captures this incredible phenomenon with great storytelling and lavish photos and memorabilia from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s.

Genres: Music

256 pages, Hardcover

First published July 5, 2011

Reviews

[Fraser Sherman · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first discotecques — night clubs with recorded music instead of bandcs — popped up in Paris in the postwar years, spreading to London, and then to New York. This in time led to "disco" as a dance club where the stars were DJs who could keep the dance music flowing non stop, and to disco music oriented to that market (which is the origin of the "dance mix" versions of so many popular hits). Morgan does a great job highlighting the musical stars, the hot clubs, the gay discos (small dance clubs were a great refuge for guys in NYC, where it was illegal for men to dance together), the trends and the movies (Saturday Night Fever being only one of several). One of those where the merits depend on your interest in the topic, but I certainly liked it.

[Bookish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Found this to be quite interesting. Seriously, Donny Osmond's Disco Train?