TURN THE BEAT AROUND: THE HISTORY OF DISCO FREE DOWNLOAD Peter Shapiro | 368 pages | 29 Apr 2009 | FABER & FABER | 9780571219230 | English | London, United Kingdom Turn The Beat Around Hidden categories: CS1 maint: archived copy as title CS1 Dutch-language sources nl Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Pages using infobox song with unknown parameters Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Dutch40 Singlechart usages for Dutch Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers. Retrieved 5 September It was released as the third and final single from her Turn the Beat Around: The History of Disco sixth studio albumhowever only to radio and clubs. The Network Forty. Haslam paints a broader canvas and Shapiro's complaint, that the disco we all know the Village People, and so on is really the decadent finale of a much more vital musical genre, fits in well with Haslam's thesis. Apr 19, Lindy rated it it was amazing Turn the Beat Around: The History of Disco 21st-centurynon-fictionmusic. Find your next favorite book Become a member today and read free for 30 days Start your free 30 days. Expand the sub menu TV. But in Manhattan inTurn the Beat Around: The History of Disco was an even more immediate target: disco. One part cultural study, one part urban history, and one part glitter-pop confection, "Turn the Beat Around" is the most comprehensive study of the Me Generation to date. It is one of the best books about music that I have encountered and definitely something worth re-reading, as its wealth of informations is perhaps too much to take in at once. Exercises in pomposity such as Yes; paragons of banality such as the Osmonds. Shapiro does cover the murky grey areas where people self-served, scammed, and snorted those white lines without much regard and to severe consequences. Unfortunately, the book was not linear enough for my taste, and I thus could not get into the author's approach. Shapiro was is? Shapiro's knowledge of music trends running concurrent with disco outlines how the simple beat developed and how it influenced newer trends. A very compelling history of what must be the most unfairly maligned musical genre of the 20th century. Estefan also took the song to the top spot on Billboard 's Hot Dance Club Play chart, making it her first number-one song on that chart in English. A very comprehensive look at the music styles around the disco era between late 60s and 80s. I listened to it in my office and I just couldn't get it. Jun 29, Tav rated it it was amazing. Houston Chronicle. With its development alongside punk, space rock, funk and new wave, Shapiro focuses in on the disco scene but also pays attention to the growth and changes of the rest of the musical world, so you don't have to be a pure disco head to enjoy this book, just a lover of music. She was a leader in the freedom of movement otherwise known as Latino style. His bigger picture prompts consideration too. After reading this I learned a lot about disco that I didn't know before like the fact that Turn the Beat Around: The History of Disco first started from young people in Germany as a response to the Nazi movement going on. Released as a single, it became a hit reaching number 13 on the Billboard Hot Expand the sub menu Dirt. Upload Sign In Join. Readers also enjoyed. Details if other :. Shapiro follows all of this with devoted enthusiasm and its almost impossible not to get swept away with his contagious passion, though occasionally he really wonders off the subject in order to explain the wider picture - I rolled my eyes when he started going back as 19th century king of marches John Philip Sousa who preceded Jazz but most of the time he is spot on with academic musings what was going on in the background, while mainstream public only vaguely understood corporate machinations that pulled the strings. Disco, in it's popular form, still remains one of the most reviled genres in popular music. Whether it's the psychedelic house parties at The Loft, the hedonism at the Continental Baths, or even the glitter-ball sensationalism Turn the Beat Around: The History of Disco Studio 54, he keeps everything grounded in stories of the people involved. Biggest revelation: Disco isn't soul music as much as it is a mutated form of Broadway musical arias. But sometimes he just listens to the music. I really liked I read a lot of music histories, sometimes just to be cognizant of various styles. Topics Books. It's an effort to bring this terrific music the sort of intellectual attention that punk and singer- songwriter crap get wayyy too much of. Cash Box [35]. It includes that stuff, but thankfully focuses on the soulful and underground side of things. Really I did. Turn the Beat Around: The History of Disco this book, author Peter Shapiro emphasis how disco was a revolution all of its own and his book makes the grand and accurate case that disco, like punk and hip-hop was the voice of the restless and the newly liberated. I ended up reading it from cover to cover in about three days. Home Books Pop Culture. He manages to weave in cultural events and informative interviews with all of the anorak-y factoids, which really makes the book compelling. Jan 26, Christal rated it liked it. Jan 23, Will rated it it was amazing. Makes a compelling case that disco was more boundry breaking than 60s hippie music, and more revolutionary than punk. As such, and as a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid 'Disco Sucks' campaign at the end of the decade. Laura Branigan covered the song inbecoming the first major artist to do so. Both were extremely well- researched and well-written, but so very dry. There wasn't any reluctance on my part, even though I was never the biggest fan of disco music. More than that, the story of disco tells us a lot about the story of America in the 70s and 80s, and "Turn the Beat Around" explodes its subject from every angle: race, gender, sexuality, class, technology, the end of the 60s "dream," the beginning of our ongoing experiment with unchecked rapacious individualism, etc. Hell, even progressive rock has seen a bit of a rehabilitation in the past ten years with its own This was recommended to me by a friend and it took me ages to finally Turn the Beat Around: The History of Disco a copy. With this book's help, I learned so much about a genre that I had only previously known via Disney's "Macho Macho Duck. Oct 28, Bill rated it really liked it. One problem for me was the number of styles of music it describes without coming up with a clear definition of what is 'disco'. I'm biased, I know, but except for a few anomalies, for me the decade really didn't get going until what we call "punk" lifted its spiky head out of the gutters of New York and London. Book Template. This Is Not Abba takes as its starting point the insidious effects of "abbafication", Haslam's decade-specific term for what is really a perennial bad habit: sentimentalising the past. My next attempt will be "Can't Stop, Won't Stop," about hip hop. A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the culture that spawned it Disco may be the most universally derided musical form to come about in the past forty years. Expand the sub menu Theater. I was familiar, sadly, with the later Turn the Beat Around: The History of Disco of disco's career, from the cloying mindlessness of "Staying Alive", to Rod Stewart's excruciating "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" to which everyone I knew answered "No"so I was particularly caught by Peter Shapiro's earlier chapters. Expand the sub menu What To Watch. That's why I was excited about reading this book about Disco music. Want to Read saving…..