Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983 Donald Sabo and texture and pattern

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Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983 Donald Sabo and texture and patternAs the 1970s gave way to the 80s, New York's party scene entered a ferociously inventive period characterized by its creativity, intensity, and hybridity. Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor chronicles this tumultuous time, charting the sonic and social eruptions that took place in the city's subterranean party venues as well as the way they cultivated breakthrough movements in art, performance, video, and film. Interviewing DJs, party hosts,