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The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground, Week By Week – Vince Aletti (2009)

With reviews of every disco record worth knowing about, weekly reports from New York’s club scene, classic magazine articles and 800 contemporary club charts, this is the definitive chronicle of disco. It's the personal memoir of Vince Aletti, the very first writer to cover the emerging scene, bringing to life the clubs, the characters, and above all the music. The first book from DJhistory.com
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Bob Blank

Where were you born and when?
I was born in 1951 in Manhattan, but I was raised in the suburbs in Hunington Long Island. There was a lot of what you’d call white flight from the city and that’s where people wound up, the first thing I wanted to do as a pending adult was to get out of there.

 

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Satan In The Dance Hall – Ralph Giordano, 2008

Once they'd hoodwinked the country into banning alcohol, America’s fundamentalists targeted dancing. Lincoln Nebraska outlawed eye contact between dance partners, while many cities banned “animal" (ie black) dances, like the scandalous Charleston. Forgive the lifeless academic prose, this is a book of amazing revelations, leaving no doubt that jazz culture was more threatening than punk.
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The Last Party: Studio 54 Disco and the Culture of the Night – Anthony Haden-Guest, 1997

Debonair Vanity Fair hack Haden-Guest details the monied world of upper-crust New York clubbing in a history that climaxes the day Bianca Jagger rode a horse into Studio 54. It's the full saga of Studio itself, populated largely by people with titles, racehorses and Truman Capote’s phone number; then Palladium, Limelight and other gossipy spots. Best picture caption: “Andy Warhol is in the rear.”
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Last Night's Party – Merlin Bronques (2008)

“It's for a magazine/website/really important wank – could you pull your knickers off, snog your friend and smear vodka on your boobies.” For Merlin Bronques it not only gets him laid, but thanks to lastnightsparty.com it’s made him famous. Slutty images of kids wasted at Williamsburg parties; with better tattoos, stronger drugs and skinnier, more expensive genes than you'll ever fit into.
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