Menergy : San Francisco's gay disco sound

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Label

Menergy : San Francisco's gay disco sound

Title remainder

San Francisco's gay disco sound

Statement of responsibility

Louis Niebur

Creator

• Niebur, Louis, 1971-

Author

• Niebur, Louis, 1971-

Subject

• Electronic dance music -- California | San Francisco -- History and criticism
• Castro District (San Francisco, Calif.)
• Sound recording industry -- California | San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
• Gay men -- California | San Francisco -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• Disco music -- California | San Francisco -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

"Menergy tells the story of a "post-disco" recording industry in San Francisco between the years 1978-1984. For most of America, disco died in 1979. Gay men, however, continued to dance, and in the gay enclave of the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco, enterprising gay DJs, record producers, and musicians started their own small dance music record labels to make up for the lack of new, danceable music. These independent labels' music did more than copy what the larger industry had been doing, however. Instead, the upstart companies built upon the musical experiments their roster of local musicians and producers had been exploring over the last several years, developing a distinctive style of its own. Known as "high energy," the music reveled in electronics, fast tempos, disco and DJ culture, and, above all, gay liberation as it had emerged over the previous decade in the Castro neighborhood by so called "Castro clones" (a gay subculture of exaggerated masculinity with a strong presence in the city's nightlife). The sound, like the new revolutionary ethos, derived its aesthetic from San Francisco's unique configuration of elements, but immediately this music had a reach far beyond the Bay, with Megatone Records, Moby Dick Records, and other labels achieving worldwide success with San Francisco artists such as Sylvester, Patrick Cowley, Paul Parker, Lisa, Loverde, and Jolo, creating the world's first gay-owned, gay-produced music for a dancing audience"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

781.648155409794/61

Index

index present

LC call number

ML3526

LC item number

.N54

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography