Mimi Haddon, Michael Lawrence, and Arabella Stanger Introduction: DISCO! Music, Image, Dance Melissa Blanco Borelli Prelude: "Disco, Divas and Dance Studies" Section One: Music Chapter 1: Alex Jeffery, "Cinderella in Eurodiscoland: Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time and the Progressive Rock Connection" Chapter 2: Barbara LeBrun, "In Defence of Dalida: Nostalgia, Dancing, and Vulgarity in French Disco" Chapter 3: Jack Parlett, "The First Days of Disco: Nostalgia, Fire Island and Dancer from the Dance" Chapter 4: Daniel Kane, "The Best Minds of My Generation Go Bang!: On Arthur Russell and Allen Ginsberg" Chapter 5: Mimi Haddon, "From Disco to Dance: Progressive Urban Contemporary and the Aesthetics of Play" Chapter 6: Lucy Robinson, "Disco as Community, Space and Memorialisation: Jimmy Somerville fights AIDS in 4 Albums" Chapter 7: Jaap Kooijman, "Dancing in the Dead Boys' Club: 1990s Retro-Disco and the Memory of AIDS" Section Two: Image Chapter 8: Adrian Loving, "Reflections on Aesthetics and Black Excellence in the Disco Era" Chapter 9: Joe Wlodarz, "'Caught in the Act': Village People and the Crossover of Gay Macho" Chapter 10: Ryan Powell, "Disco's Suck: Discophobia and the Foreclosure of Blow Job Temporality in Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Chapter 11: Silpa Mukherjee, "Starry Nights: Disco and 1980s Bombay Film Culture as Contraband" Chapter 12: Jakub Machek, "Between the Discotheque and the Screen: The Role of Disco in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia" Chapter 13: Tamara Tomi?-Vajagi?, "Disco as Open Image: Internet Sightings, Cryptic Denotations, and 'Disco Girls'" Chapter 14: madison moore, "Brown Disco! madison moore in dialogue with Nao Bustamante" Section Three: Dance Chapter 15: Keith Gildart and Rosalind Watkiss Singleton, "The English Civil (Disco) War: Northern Soul, Club Culture, and Saturday Night Fever in Wigan and Wolverhampton, 1973-81" Chapter 16: Ivan Munuera, "Rushin' in the Sky" Chapter 17: Michael Lawrence, "Burn, Baby, Burn - Disco Aerobics! Working it and Working Out" Chapter 18: Qian Wang, "All About My Mother: A Family Narrative of Nostalgia and Time-Space in Chinese Disco" Chapter 19: Arabella Stanger, "Disco Pessimism: A School Disco at Tate Modern" Chapter 20: Kareem Khubchandani, "'The Land of Disco': Arshia Haq's Insurgent Curation at Discostan" Thomas F. DeFrantz Afterword: "Disco! After the Dance" Index.
Disco! : Music, Image, Dance