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Life and Demise on the New York Dance Ground, 1980–1983 (DUKE UNIVERSITY)

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Because the Nineteen Seventies gave option to the 80s, New York's get together scene entered a ferociously ingenious interval characterised by its creativity, depth, and hybridity. Life and Demise on the New York Dance Ground chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that occurred within the metropolis’s subterranean get together venues in addition to the way in which they cultivated breakthrough actions in artwork, efficiency, video, and movie. Interviewing DJs, get together hosts, producers, musicians, artists, and dancers, Tim Lawrence illustrates how the comparatively discrete post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes turned marked by their stage of plurality, interplay, and convergence. He additionally explains how the shifting city panorama of New York supported the cultural renaissance earlier than gentrification, Reaganomics, company intrusion, and the unfold of AIDS introduced this gritty and protean time and place in American tradition to a troubled denouement.

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