Individuals Involved in Disco:

Lawrence, Tim. (2008), Disco Madness: Walter Gibbons and the Legacy of Turntablism and Remixology. Journal of Popular Music Studies, 20: 276-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-1598.2008.00162.x  

 

Lawrence, Tim. “Connecting with the Cosmic: Arthur Russell, Rhizomatic Musicianship, and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92.” University of East London, Liminalities, 21 Apr. 2010, https://uel-repository.worktribe.com/output/464570. 

 

Richards, Sam. “‘He Was like the Messiah’: Larry Levan, the DJ Who Changed Dance Music Forever.” Edited by The Guardian, The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 28 Mar. 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/28/larry-levan-disco-dance-nicky-siano-dj-harvey?CMP=share_btn_url.

 

Economic Situations and their Origins:

Butler, Violet, From New York to “MacArthur Park”: Disco’s Evolution and Downfall in Middle America (March 03, 2023). https://ssrn.com/abstract=5196392 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5196392

 

Hankin, Noel. After Dark: Birth of the Disco Dance Party. Leon Niknah Publishing Company, 2021. 

 

Shapiro, Peter. Turn the Beat around the Secret History of Disco. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. 

 

Locations and Cultural Traditions:

Cooper, Carol. “Disco Knights: Hidden Heroes of the New York Dance Music Underground.” Social Text, no. 45, 1995, p. 159, https://doi.org/10.2307/466679 

 

McLeod, Ken. “‘A Fifth of Beethoven’: Disco, Classical Music, and the Politics of Inclusion.” American Music, vol. 24, no. 3, University of Illinois Press, 2006, pp. 347–63, https://doi.org/10.2307/25046036 

 

Royster, Francesca T. “Labelle: Funk, Feminism, and the Politics of Flight and Fight.” American Studies, vol. 52, no. 4, 2013, pp. 77–98. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24589270, https://doi.org/10.2307/24589270 

Audience and Key Music Venues:

Echols, Alice. Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. Norton, 2011.

 

Colombo, Ambrose. “From Disco to Electronic Music: Following the Evolution of Dance Culture through Music Genres, Venues, Laws, and Drugs.” CMC Senior Theses, Jan. 2010, scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/83/.

 

Frank, Gillian. “Discophobia: Antigay Prejudice and the 1979 Backlash against Disco.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 16, no. 2, 2007, pp. 276–306, https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.2007.0050.