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Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983

by Tim Lawrence
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As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city's subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification, Reaganomics, corporate intrusion, and the spread of AIDS brought this gritty and protean time and place in American culture to a troubled denouement.

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    September 15, 2016

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      • ISBN: 9780822373926

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    • Library Journal

      August 1, 2016

      New York in the early 1980s was marked by urban deterioration and a poor financial outlook; yet this same landscape brought revitalized creative energy to club culture. Dozens of spaces from the Mudd Club to the Garage featured a fusion of many musical styles--postdisco, rap, salsa, techno, retro, punk, and more--spawning a vibrant dance scene and a new breed of DJs, promoters, musicians, dancers, and celebrities. Lawrence (cultural studies, Univ. of East London; Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979) goes into remarkable depth to portray this world which, during its few short years, gained expansive popularity and had a significant impact on art, film, literature, and culture. His meticulous research, with details on the leading figures, trends, events, places, and music that made it all happen, also provides critical/analytical commentary on the social backdrop of the times, the genesis of the emerging and eclectic music/dance styles, and the essence of this artistic renaissance. In addition to the well-selected photographs, notes, and bibliography, set lists, discographies, and a filmography add to the title's impressive breadth. VERDICT Cultural historians and those familiar with the 1980s milieu will find this informative and insightful.--Carol J. Binkowski, Bloomfield, NJ

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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