TIM LAWRENCE

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CONTENTS ix Preface xvii Acknowl edgments 1 Introduction 1980 THE RECALIBRATION OF DISCO 11 1 Stylistic Coherence Didn’t Matter at All 30 2 The Basement Den at Club 57 48 3 Danceteria: Midtown Feels the Downtown Storm 60 4 Subterranean Dance 73 5 The Bronx- Brooklyn Approach 92 6 The Sound Became More Real 105 7 Major- Label Calculations 111 8 The Saint Peter of Discos 122 9 Lighting the Fuse PART I PART II 1981 ACCELERATING TOWARD PLURALISM 135 10 Explosion of Clubs 155 11 Artistic Maneuvers in the Dark 170 12 Downtown Configures Hip Hop 184 13 The Sound of a Transcendent Future 199 14 The New Urban Street Sound 210 15 It Wasn’t Rock and Roll and It Wasn’t Disco 221 16 Frozen in Time or Freed into Infinity 232 17 It Felt Like the Whole City Was Listening 239 18 Shrouded Abatements and Mysterious Deaths
viii CONTENTS PART III 1982 DANCE CULTURE SEIZES THE CITY 245 19 All We Had Was the Club 257 20 Inverted Pyramid 271 21 Roxy Music 279 22 The Garage: Every body Was Listening to Every thing 288 23 The Planet Rock Groove 304 24 Techno Funksters 314 25 Taste Segues 320 26 Stormy Weather 331 27 Cusp of an Impor tant Fusion 1983 THE GENESIS OF DIVISION 343 28 Cristal for Every one 369 29 Dropping the Pretense and the Flashy Suits 381 30 Straighten It Out with Larry Levan 400 31 Stripped- Down and Scrambled Sounds 419 32 We Became Part of This Energy 430 33 Sex and Dying 438 34 We Got the Hits, We Got the Future 449 35 Behind the Groove 458 EPILOGUE Life, Death, and the Hereafter PART IV 485 Notes 515 Selected Discography 529 Selected Filmography 531 Selected Bibliography 537 Index
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