Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time

ISBN-13: 9781501355462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 144 str.

UK) Jeffery Dr Alex (Independent Scholar

Opis

A serious consideration of disco -- a genre that dominated sales in the last years of the 1970s in America -- through Donna Summer's 6th album.

Recenzje

Jeffery perfectly blends a personal, queer and highly subjective experience with historical context to make this one of the. better entries on a growing shelf of books that take disco seriously as an art form. Spectrum Culture

Spis treści

Introduction: Once Upon A Time 1. Sweet Romance: A Tale of Two Discos 2. Faster and Faster to Nowhere: Fairy Tales and the Black Urban Experience 3. Working the Midnight Shift: Life and Music Inside the Munich Machine Brief Interlude: A Man Like You or How to Get Your Man 4. Fairy Tale High: A Personal Reading of Once Upon A Time Happily Ever After: An Invitation

O autorze

Alex Jeffery writes and teaches about popular music, and currently lives between London and Berlin. Alex lectures on popular music in several institutions in London, including City, University of London BIMM London and the University of Cambridge. He has also worked as associate editor at the long-running music review site MusicOMH, and runs the YouTube channel DocPopterTV, which posts audiovisual essays on his research and other audiovisual creative work.