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Saturday Night Fever and the Death of Disco

Broey Deschanel 154,923 2 years ago
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Pedro Almodóvar's THE HUMAN VOICE is streaming on MUBI in Canada, the UK, and many other countries. Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: https://mubi.com/broeydeschanel Rehash Podcast: https://anchor.fm/rehashpodcast Rehash Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rehashpodcast Follow and support this channel! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/broeydeschanel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/broey_deschanel/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeschanelBroey “The Untold History of Disco” Polyphonic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_c2dCO5WLo&t=103s&ab_channel=Polyphonic Intro song (More Than a Woman cover arrangement - Orsay Music): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoXSptTDk7o&ab_channel=orsaymusic Thumbnail by Hannah Raine: https://www.instagram.com/hannahmraine/?hl=en SOURCES Nick Cohn, “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night” New York Mag (1976). Richard Dyer, "In Defence of Disco" Gay Left, no.8 (1979). Alice Echols, Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, W.W. Norton (2010). Nadine Hubbs, “'I Will Survive': Musical Mappings of Queer Social Space in a Disco Anthem” Popular Music Vol. 26, No. 2 (May, 2007). Margherita Heyer-Caput, “Italian-American Urban Hyphens in Saturday Night Fever” Italian Americana Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter 2011). Tavia Nyong'o, “I Feel Love: Disco and its Discontents” Criticism Vol. 50, No. 1, Special Issue: Disco (Winter 2008). Lisa Robinson, “Boogie Nights” Vanity Fair (2010). John Rockwell, “POP VIEW;   Rock vs. Disco: Who Really Won the War?” The New York Times (1990). Ioana Stamatescu, “Le freak, c’est chic! Disco Culture and Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco” Synergy, vol. 13, no. 1 (2017). Joshua Williams, “The Death of Disco Did Not Take Place: Disco Demolition Night and The Rhetorical Destruction of Disco” The Macksey Journal, Vol. 2. (2021). Paul Williams, “too black, too gay: the disco inferno” Duke University Press (2003).

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