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Cargando... Chic: Everybody Dance: The Politics of Discopor Daryl Easlea
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Easlea makes the case that most of us think we know Chic's music, but its familiarity stops us from listening to it closely. The book starts at the turn of the '70s when the central protagonists - Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards - are paying their dues in various r'n'b, soul and rock gigs in New York. It follows them through their meeting, their surprisingly brief ride of fame on the disco wave, and their subsequent parting to produce other artists. Easlea's assessment of how Let's Dance fits into David Bowie's career, and the nature of Rodgers' contribution to it, is particularly astute. The story of the later reunion and the deaths of Edwards and drummer Teddy Thompson is poignant. This book uses its head, but what you remember is its big heart in the warmth it shows to its characters. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Few narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by former Black Panther activist Nile Rodgers and down-home family man Bernard Edwards, are one of the most underrated and pivotal acts in African-American musical history. As artists, they created a discrete R&B sound that just happened to coincide with the disco movement. At the height of their fame, they either released or produced a string of era-defining records but when disco collapsed, so did Chic's popularity. The group quietly called it a day in 1983. However, Rodgers and Edwards individually produced some of the great pop-dance records of the 80s, working with David Bowie, Robert Palmer, Madonna, Duran Duran and ABC, among many others. Everybody Dance puts the rise and fall of Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, the emblematic disco duo behind era-defining records "Le Freak," "Good Times," and "Lost In Music," at the heart of a changing landscape, taking in sociopolitical and cultural events such as the Civil Rights struggle, the Black Panthers, and the U.S. oil crisis. There are drugs, bankruptcy, uptight artists, fights, and Muppets but, most importantly, an in-depth appraisal of a group whose legacy remains hugely underrated. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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