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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781501302374
- Book Title
- Blondie's Parallel Lines
- Item Length
- 6.7in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Music
- Topic
- History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / General, General, Genres & Styles / Rock
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 5.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 168 Pages
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Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot planted firmly in the past while remaining quite forward-looking, an impulse that can be heard in its electronic dance music hit "Heart of Glass." Bubblegum music maven Mike Chapman produced Parallel Lines , which was the first massive hit by a group from the CBGB punk underworld. By embracing the diversity of New York City's varied music scenes, Blondie embodied many of the tensions that played out at the time between fans of disco, punk, pop and mainstream rock. Debbie Harry's campy glamor and sassy snarl shook up the rock'n'roll boy's club during a growing backlash against the women's and gay liberation movements, which helped fuel the "disco sucks" battle cry in the late 1970s. Despite disco's roots in a queer, black and Latino underground scene that began in downtown New York, punk is usually celebrated by critics and scholars as the quintessential subculture. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that dismissed disco as fluffy prefab schlock while also recuperating punk's unhip pop influences, revealing how these two genres were more closely connected than most people assume. Even Blondie's album title, Parallel Lines , evokes the parallel development of punk and disco--along with their eventual crossover into the mainstream.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
150130237x
ISBN-13
9781501302374
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038416569
Product Key Features
Book Title
Blondie's Parallel Lines
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / General, General, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Music
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.7in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml421.B6m35 2016
Reviews
"An interesting thesis well made in this enjoyable addition to the 33 1/3 series." - International Times "A neat snapshot of a time of revolution, reinvention and experimentation ... [This book is] every bit as appetising as the album itself, and an astute, erudite examination of one of the greatest albums of all time." - Record Collector "It's a rare treat when an author busts out a tightly researched agenda that totally flips your perspective on a record, a band, a scene, a genre, and an entire artistic era. Kembrew McLeod provides such a treat with this gloriously revisionist history, positing that Blondie and the core of the New York punk scene's early bands and aesthetics were a product of a wildly vital gay underground theater scene that flourished from the late 1960s to the early 1970s." - Charles Aaron, MTV News "There's a little book I've been devouring on the subway this past week or two: Blondie's Parallel Lines by Kembrew McLeod. It has had me tracing and re-tracing connections all over the place, re-examining my own assumptions about my own evolving musical tastes and cultural assumptions from the time of my first transistor radio ... Refreshing." - One Flew East, "An interesting thesis well made in this enjoyable addition to the 33 1/3 series." - International Times "It's a rare treat when an author busts out a tightly researched agenda that totally flips your perspective on a record, a band, a scene, a genre, and an entire artistic era. Kembrew McLeod provides such a treat with this gloriously revisionist history, positing that Blondie and the core of the New York punk scene's early bands and aesthetics were a product of a wildly vital gay underground theater scene that flourished from the late 1960s to the early 1970s." - Charles Aaron, MTV News "There's a little book I've been devouring on the subway this past week or two: Blondie's Parallel Lines by Kembrew McLeod. It has had me tracing and re-tracing connections all over the place, re-examining my own assumptions about my own evolving musical tastes and cultural assumptions from the time of my first transistor radio ... Refreshing." - One Flew East
Table of Content
Introduction: "Went Walking One Day on the Lower East Side ... " Chapter One: Downtown New York in the 1960s and 1970s Blondie's New York Genes Punk's Bubblegum Roots The Avant-Garde Goes Pop! Children of The Velvet Underground Max's Kansas City Chapter Two: Blondie's Arty Antecedents Off-Off-Broadway Sets the Stage for Punk Eric Emerson Makes the Scene Two Stars Align in the Glitter Age Punk's Trash Aesthetic Chapter Three: Parallel Scenes The Downtown Disco Underground Emerges Blondie Stumbles Into Existence CBGB and the Bowery Neighborhood The Downtown Rock Scene Coalesces Chapter Four: From the Bowery to Blondiemania Debbie and Chris Rebuild Blondie Takes Off "Going Professional" Art and Commerce Chapter Five: "Disco Sucks," "Chicks Can't Rock," Blah Blah Blah "Heart of Glass" Breaks Blondie In America From CBGB to Studio 54 "Death To Disco!" Punk vs. Disco? Gender Trouble Conclusion, or, Fade Away (and Radiate) Postscript: Blondie Points To the Future, Then Ceases To Exist
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-030970
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092/2
Series
33 1/3 Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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