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Disco

Albert Goldman

Hawthorn Books (Hawthorn and Wyndham) (US) / 1978 / 0-8015-2128-9

Hardcover 174 pages with B/W photos with a subsection featuring select color photos

Produced by Spritzgun Productions
Jacket design by Ken Kneitel
Jacket photo by Jan Cobb
Cover model: Vivianne Castanos
Lettering by Michael Doret
Book design by Ken Kneitel

 

Table of Contents:
Possession Is Nine-Tenths of De Lawd
Studio 54, Driver!
Floor Show
Amazing Grace
Discomania
Ball the Wall
The Varieties of Disco Experience
22 Discos
Spilled Religion
In the Beginning
Jukin'
Whiskey Disco
Enter Regine
Peppermint Twist
Les Locomotifs
A Franych Hunting Lohdge of the Savahnteenth Santuree
Rocky Parnassus
Sybil Ad Libs
The British Invasion
From Juke To Jock
Melange A Disco
Acid Shlock
A Pre-Christian Vernal Rite
Circus Maximus
Cave of Dreams
Roto Rooted
Let Me Take You Down
Hell's Kitchen
Play That Funky Music, White Boy!
Homo Ludens
Disco A Loft
Brotherly Love
Pimp Talk
Gagging On A Doughnut
Stretching Out
Erotic Hypnotic
Taking It Out
Disco Dream Factory
Disco Droids
Industrial Chic
Space City Syncopators
The Explode-Implode Business
Disco Goes Hol-ly-Wood!
That Old Hustle
Stayin' With It
Studio A UFO
Artful Dodger
Parade of the Famous Punims
I Have A Little List
Is Disco God

Disco by the late Albert Goldman is perhaps the most sought after book from the actual Disco era about the Disco era. No revisionist BS here as it was written back in the day when Disco ruled the world.

Since this book is long out of print expect to pay BIG money ($150.+) for this book chuck full of wonderful photographs of the clubs, people, DJs, artists..., but rest assured that it is worth every penny.

Albert Goldman's account of the Disco scene has the drive, color, and pounding beat of the music itself. Only Goldman could have brought such a unique package of talents to the task of exploring the greatest outbreak of Dionysiac madness since the Jitterbug, Lindy-hopping nights of the Swing era. Goldman seizes the scene from the multiple perspective of a musicologist, a sociologist, a psychiatrist, an anthropologist -- and a perfectionist. he is the swinging man's Levi-Strauss, tracing the Disco explosion back to its primeval roots and forward to the tribal rites of the sophisticated savage who is contemporary man and woman.
-- Jack Kroll (Newsweek)

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