Hi Everyone,
Tonight author and former Disco DJ, Alice Echols is going to be signing copies of her book "Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture" at Book Soup in West Hollywood.
About The Author:
Alice Echols is a professor of American studies and history at Rutgers University. A former disco deejay, she is the author of the acclaimed biography of Janis Joplin, Scars of Sweet Paradise. She lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.
About The Book:
"Disco may have presented itself as shallow and disposable -- the platforms, polyester, and plastic vibe of it all -- but Echols shows that it was inseparable from the emergence of "gay macho," a rising black middle class, and a growing, if equivocal, openness about female sexuality. The disco scene carved out a haven for gay men who reclaimed their sexuality on dance floors where they had once been surveilled and harassed; it thrust black women onto center stage as some of the genre's most prominent stars; and it paved the way for the opening of Studio 54 and the viral popularity of the shoestring-budget Saturday Night Fever, a movie that challenged traditional notions of masculinity, even for heterosexuals." - Publisher Comments
Where:
Book Soup
8818 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90029
When:
7pm
See You There!
xo
L.A.F.
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