What the Twist Did for the Peppermint Lounge
Dave Haslam: Club culture, 6 January 2000
Adventures in Wonderland: A Decade of Club Culture
by Sheryl Garratt.
Headline, 335 pp., £7.99, May 1999,0 7472 7680 3 Show More
by Sheryl Garratt.
Headline, 335 pp., £7.99, May 1999,
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton.
Headline, 408 pp., £14.99, November 1999,0 7472 7573 4 Show More
by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton.
Headline, 408 pp., £14.99, November 1999,
Saturday Night For Ever: The Story of Disco
by Alan Jones and Jussi Kantonen.
Mainstream, 223 pp., £9.99, April 1999,9781840181777 Show More
by Alan Jones and Jussi Kantonen.
Mainstream, 223 pp., £9.99, April 1999,
Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture
by Simon Reynolds.
Picador, 493 pp., £12.99, July 1998,0 330 35056 0 Show More
by Simon Reynolds.
Picador, 493 pp., £12.99, July 1998,
More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction
by Kodwo Eshun.
Quartet, 208 pp., £10, March 1998,0 7043 8025 0 Show More
by Kodwo Eshun.
Quartet, 208 pp., £10, March 1998,
“... beats and effects. Back in 1976, punk set itself against disco wholeheartedly. Alan Jones and Jussi Kantonen describe an occasion in July 1979 at the home stadium of the Chicago White Sox baseball team when thousands of disco records were set alight while the crowd chanted ‘Disco sucks, Disco sucks!’ The 1989 edition of the Penguin Encyclopedia ... ”
