Research Catalog

Title

"You better work!" : underground dance music in New York City / Kai Fikentscher.

Author

Fikentscher, Kai.

Publication

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c2000.

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Details

Description

xv, 159 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Music/culture

Subjects

• Electronic dance music > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism
• Homosexuality and dance
• Hispanic Americans > New York (State) > New York > Dance > History and criticism
• Dance, Black
• Discotheques > New York (State) > New York
• African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Dance > History and criticism
• Nightclubs > New York (State) > New York

Note

• Includes glossary of underground dance terms (p. [135]-140)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-149), discographies (p. [115-120], [151-154]) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Disco : the premise for underground dance music -- The cult and culture of the DJ -- The dancers : working (it) out -- Underground dancing : autonomy and interdependence in music and dance -- The underground as cultural context : the marginality of ethnic and sexual minorities -- Outlook : underground dance music beyond the 1990s.

Call Number

*MGS (U.S.) 01-1342

ISBN

• 0819564036 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0819564044 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00009088

OCLC

• 43919546
• NYPY01-B2271

Author

Fikentscher, Kai.

Title

"You better work!" : underground dance music in New York City / Kai Fikentscher.

Imprint

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c2000.

Series

Music/culture

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-149), discographies (p. [115-120], [151-154]) and index.

Research Call Number

*MGS (U.S.) 01-1342

JME 00-781