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Dancehalls, glitterballs and DJs : from the Pleasure Garden to the discotheque / Bruce Lindsay.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3431 .L55 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindsay, Bruce (Music journalist), author.
- Series:
- Popular music history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance music--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Dance music.
- Dance--Great Britain--History.
- Dance.
- Disco music--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Disco music.
- Discotheques--Great Britain--History.
- Discotheques.
- Dance halls--Great Britain--History.
- Dance halls.
- Vauxhall Gardens (London, England).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2025.
- Summary:
- "The history of disco and its predecessors is often portrayed as one of glamour and excess. Dancehalls, Glitterballs and DJs expands this history, to encompass tatty but much-loved provincial dancehalls, mobile DJs with home-made light shows and rusty vans, one-hit-wonders on the chicken-in-a-basket circuit, and nights out with Jane Austen. It's a vital, fun-packed history of a cultural movement that, despite the vagaries of fashion, remains part of the entertainment scene today"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Where Will it End? An Introduction
- When Did it All Begin?
- Spin Me Right Round
- How to Do the Tickle Toe
- It Don't Mean a Thing
- A Night at the London Palladium
- Dance Like Fred and Ginger, Sing Like Gracie and George
- Swing Until You Win
- V-Discs, Clubmobiles and a Platter Pilot
- Rock, Roll and 45s
- La Discothèque est ici
- It's All Over Town
- A Beat Boom, A Baby Boom
- A Land of a Thousand Dances
- Music, Fashion and Passion
- On the Way Down and On the Way Up
- Disco Britannia!
- Disco Charts and Chat
- Disco Breaks Out
- Disco's Death Knell
- Disco's Alive!
- Endnotes
- Selective Discography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lindsay, Bruce. Dancehalls, glitterballs and DJs
- ISBN:
- 9781800505971
- 1800505973
- OCLC:
- 1451794589
- Publisher Number:
- 90102356332
- CIPO000194803
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