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
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
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.