Disco Dance

This book sheds light on the fascinating untold story behind what is collectively and disputably called "disco dancing," and the incredible effect that the phenomenon had on America—in New York City and beyond. Disco is a dance and musical style that still influences these art forms today. Many think that disco "died" completely after the 1970s drew to a close, but in actuality people continued dancing in the clubs after the very word "disco" became an anathema. Disco Dance explains why disco was more than just a dance form or a fad, describing many of the clubs—in New York City especially—where the disco subculture thrived. The author examines the origins of disco music, its evolution, and how young people adapted the dance styles of the day to the disco beat, charting how this dance of celebration and rebellion during troubling times became subject to ridicule by the end of the decade.

A dodgy dog rescue fundraiser, a dazzlingly dizzy disco, and a mystery to solve for the Silver Star Dancers! When a disco to raise money for a dog rescue centre turns out to be a hoax, Lulu and her team are determined to make it happen anyway. Amongst the yelping and barking, disco lights and darkness, there is a thief to catch. But will their cunning plan work? Fans of dancing, detecting and good stories will love The Doggy Disco Hoax. And look out for more adventures in the Lulu and the Dance Detectives series!

Includes every story in the My Crazy Pet Frog and Secret Agent Disco Dancer series, ever. BOOKS 1. Green Eggs and a Side of Earnest Bacon 2. Double Agent Orangegrove 3. Was It The Lobster Bisque? 4. The Last Ding Dong on Earth 5. Did Somebody Say Pizza? 6. Frosted Flake 7. Was It The Tira Misu? 8. Burger Blues 9. Burger Blues Side Story 10. You Don't Know Jack 11. Soccer Star 12. I Gave My Pizza A Spanking 13. Santa's Super Helpers 14. The Nightmare Pizza Before Christmas 15. The Zombies Ate My Pizza 16. Taco Tuesday 17. Chicken George 18. Santa Got Run Over by a Burrito 19. My Crazy Pet Frog, A Novelette PREVIEWS 1. Earl of Manwich 2. Burger Blues 2 3. Call Me Crabby 4. Secret Agent Disco Dancer, A Novel 5. Agent -1 INTERVIEWS 1. A Random Bag of Frogs (Fredrico Frillyfoam) 2. A Random Bag of Pigs (Earnest T. Bacon) 3. A Random Bag of Fries (Goldo "Goldy" McLuvin) 4. A Random Bag of Oranges (Double Agent Orangegrove) 5. A Random Bag of Cherries (Cherrywine Divine) 6. A Random Bag of Horse Manure (Special Agent Halfwitz) 7. A Random Bag of Buttz (Major Buttz) 8. A Random Bag of Mistletoe (Santa) Over 1,100 pages in all. Descriptions of my other popular children's books are included after the main feature (an additional 5 pages).

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment brings together a cross-section of artists and scholars engaged with the phenomenon of reenactment in dance from a practical and theoretical standpoint. Synthesizing myriad views on danced reenactment and the manner in which this branch of choreographic performance intersects with important cultural concerns around appropriation this Handbook addresses originality, plagiarism, historicity, and spatiality as it relates to cultural geography. Others topics treated include transmission as a heuristic device, the notion of the archive as it relates to dance and as it is frequently contrasted with embodied cultural memory, pedagogy, theory of history, reconstruction as a methodology, testimony and witnessing, theories of history as narrative and the impact of dance on modernist literature, and relations of reenactment to historical knowledge and new media.

DEVLIN BLUM had a life, once. On earth, no less. Now he finds himself knee-deep in taco madness on the moon's only Mexican restaurant. When a certain frog sneaks off with his Rolled Tacos, the ones he specifically set aside for Santa, he's left scrambling. Surely he doesn't want to let Santa down. But getting those Rolled Tacos back could be more trouble than they're worth. A food misadventure of galactic proportions, intended for children 9 and up. Approximately 21,300 words. Descriptions of my other popular children's books are included after the main feature (an additional 5 pages).

American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.

Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems posed by contemporary dance culture of both academic and cultural study and finds these origins in the history of opposition to music as a source of sensory pleasure. Discussing such issues as technology, club space. drugs, the musical body, gender, sexuality and pleasure, Discographies explores the ecstatic experiences at the heart of contemporary dance culture. It suggests why politicians and agencies as diverse as the independent music press and public broadcasting should be so hostile to this cultural phenomenon.

Amanda Howell offers a new perspective on the contemporary pop score as the means by which masculinities not seen—or heard—before become a part of post-World War II American cinema. Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action addresses itself to an eclectic mix of film, from Elvis and Travolta star vehicles to Bruckheimer-produced blockbuster action, including the work of musically-innovative directors, Melvin Van Peebles, Martin Scorsese, Gregg Araki, and Quentin Tarantino. Of particular interest is the way these films and their representations of masculinity are shaped by generic exchanges among contemporary music, music cultures, and film, combining American cinema's long-standing investment in violence-as-spectacle with similarly body-focused pleasures of contemporary youth music. Drawing on scholarship of popular music and the pop score as well as feminist film and media studies, Howell addresses an often neglected area of gender representation by considering cinematic masculinity as an audio-visual construction. Through her analyses of music’s role in action and other film genres that share its investment in violence, she reveals the mechanisms by which the pop score has helped to reinvent gender—and gendered fictions of male empowerment—in contemporary screen entertainment.