Name: Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor 1980-1983
Brand: Tim Lawrence

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9780822362029

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2016-09-30

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Tim Lawrence

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Duke University Press

Tim Lawrence is a London-based author, writer, and party organizer. He is also the head of the Music Culture: Theory and Production degree at the University of East London. With his expertise in music, Tim has written books, articles, and sleeve notes that delve into various aspects of the industry.
Two compilations inspired by Tim's books on the vibrant New York dance music scene have been released on Reappearing Records. These compilations showcase his deep knowledge and passion for this genre.
As an influential figure in the music world, Tim Lawrence continues to contribute to the understanding and appreciation of diverse musical cultures through his extensive research and engaging writing style.

New Wave / Post Punk

Rough Trade Books of the Year 2017 No: 19

In Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor Tim Lawrence examines the city's party, dance, music, and art culture between 1980 and 1983, tracing the rise, apex, and fall of this inventive, vibrant, and tumultuous scene. 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 discreet post-disco, post-punk, and hip hop scenes became marked by their level of plurality, interaction, and convergence. He also explains how the shifting urban landscape of New York supported the cultural renaissance before gentrification, Reaganomics, corporate intrusion, and the spread of AIDS brought this gritty and protean time and place in American culture to a troubled denouement.

Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor 1980-1983

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