2 The Basement Den at Club 57

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I 1980 THE RECALIBRATION OF DISCO
7. 1 Stylistic Coherence Didn’t Matter at All 11
8. 2 The Basement Den at Club 57 30
9. 3 Danceteria 48
10. 4 Subterranean Dance 60
11. 5 The Bronx-Brooklyn Approach 73
12. 6 The Sound Became More Real 92
13. 7 Major-Label Calculations 105
14. 8 The Saint Peter of Discos 111
15. 9 Lighting the Fuse 122
16. PART II 1981 ACCELERATING TOWARD PLURALISM
17. 10 Explosion of Clubs 135
18. 11 Artistic Maneuvers in the Dark 155
19. 12 Downtown Configures Hip Hop 170
20. 13 The Sound of a Transcendent Future 184
21. 14 The New Urban Street Sound 199
22. 15 It Wasn’t Rock and Roll and It Wasn’t Disco 210
23. 16 Frozen in Time or Freed into Infinity 221
24. 17 It Felt Like the Whole City Was Listening 232
25. 18 Shrouded Abatements and Mysterious Deaths 239
26. PART III 1982 DANCE CULTURE SEIZES THE CITY
27. 19 All We Had Was the Club 245
28. 20 Inverted Pyramid 257
29. 21 Roxy Music 271
30. 22 The Garage 279
31. 23 The Planet Rock Groove 288
32. 24 Techno Funksters 304
33. 25 Taste Segues 314
34. 26 Stormy Weather 320
35. 27 Cusp of an Important Fusion 331
36. PART IV 1983 THE GENESIS OF DIVISION
37. 28 Cristal for Everyone 343
38. 29 Dropping the Pretense and the Flashy Suits 369
39. 30 Straighten It Out with Larry Levan 381
40. 31 Stripped-Down and Scrambled Sounds 400
41. 32 We Became Part of This Energy 419
42. 33 Sex and Dying 430
43. 34 We Got the Hits, We Got the Future 438
44. 35 Behind the Groove 449
45. EPILOGUE Life, Death, and the Hereafter 458
46. Notes 485
47. Selected Discography 515
48. Selected Filmography 529
49. Selected Bibliography 531
50. Index 537