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Saturday Night Fever and the Death of Disco


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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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Could you summarize? Most people don't want to sit through a video.

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