Ebook: Turn the beat around: the secret history of disco

Provides a study of the most important musical form of the 1970s that assesses the history of disco music and the cultural, social, and economic milieu of the era that spawned it.;The rotten apple -- "I'm just and outlaw, my name is desire" : disco and sexuality -- "Like clones and robots that we are" : automating the beat -- "Zippin' up my boots, going back to my roots" : disco and the soul continuum -- Prisoners of the night : the disco craze -- "So why should I be ashamed?" : disco goes underground -- "Stayin' alive" : disco today.