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