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Young Americans to Emotional Rescue: Selected Meetings Between Disco and Rock, 1975-1980

Kavka, Daniel Robert
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1277322797

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2010, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Ethnomusicology.
Disco-rock, composed of disco-influenced recordings by rock artists, was a sub-genre of both disco and rock in the 1970s. Seminal recordings included: David Bowie's Young Americans; The Rolling Stones' “Hot Stuff,” “Miss You,” “Dance Pt.1,” and “Emotional Rescue”; KISS's “Strutter '78,” and “I Was Made For Lovin' You”; Rod Stewart's “Do Ya Think I'm Sexy“; and Elton John's Thom Bell Sessions and Victim of Love. Though disco-rock was a great commercial success during the disco era, it has received limited acknowledgement in post-disco scholarship. This thesis addresses the lack of existing scholarship pertaining to disco-rock. It examines both disco and disco-rock as products of cultural shifts during the 1970s. Disco was linked to the emergence of underground dance clubs in New York City, while disco-rock resulted from the increased mainstream visibility of disco culture during the mid seventies, as well as rock musicians' exposure to disco music. My thesis argues for the study of a genre (disco-rock) that has been dismissed as inauthentic and commercial, a trend common to popular music discourse, and one that is linked to previous debates regarding the social value of pop music. The result is a study that compiles the work of previous disco scholars and provides a first step towards the study of disco-rock within the social and musical culture of the 1970s.
Jeremy Wallach, PhD (Advisor)
Katherine Meizel, PhD (Committee Member)
77 p.
Music
pop; pop music; popular music; rock; disco; club culture; dance music; 1970s; american; ethnomusicology

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  • Kavka, D. R. (2010). Young Americans to Emotional Rescue: Selected Meetings Between Disco and Rock, 1975-1980 [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1277322797

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kavka, Daniel. Young Americans to Emotional Rescue: Selected Meetings Between Disco and Rock, 1975-1980. 2010. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1277322797.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kavka, Daniel. "Young Americans to Emotional Rescue: Selected Meetings Between Disco and Rock, 1975-1980." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1277322797

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