📘 Read Now 📥 Download eBook details Title: Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983 Author : Tim Lawrence Release Date : January 15, 2016 Genre: Music,Books,Arts & Entertainment,History,United States,Nonfiction,Social Science, Pages : * pages Size : 18085 KB Description As the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York’s party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city’s subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the relatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how ...