Turn the Beat Around

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.<br><br><b>Disco </b>emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid 'Disco Sucks' campaign at the end of the decade. <br><br>Featuring artists such as <b>Chic</b>, <b>Sylvester</b>, <b>Donna Summer</b> and <b>Frank Grasso</b>, <i>Turn the Beat Around</i> illustrates why and how disco changed the face of popular culture forever.