Disco (Albert Goldman)
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"Never, in the long history of public entertainment, have so many paid so much for so little - and enjoyed themselves so immensely!"--Albert Goldman cited in Last Night a DJ Saved My Life "As you climb its steeply angled ramp to the second floor you feel like a character in a Kafka novel. From overhead comes the heavy pounding of the disco beat like a fearful migraine. When you reach the "bar", a huge bare parking area, you are astonished to see immense pornographic murals of Greek and Trojan warriors locked in a sado-masochistic combat running from floor to ceiling. On the floor of the main dancing room are the most frenzied dancers of the disco scene: the black and Puerto Rican gays, stripped down to singlets and denim shorts, swinging their bodies with wild abandon."--Albert Goldman, Disco, cited on jahsonic.com "What differentiates discomania from most of its predecessors is its overt tendency to spill over into orgy, as it has done already in the gay world. All disco is implicitly orgy." --Albert Goldman cited by Peter Braunstein in Village Voice, 1998 |
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Disco (1979) is a book by Albert Goldman. The book features many photos, is considered a coffee table book and is the earliest book on the disco phenomenon.
