Life and Death On The New York Dance Floor 1980-1983 - Tim Lawrence Hans Bellmer and Tanizaki Jun’ichiro­

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Life and Death On The New York Dance Floor 1980-1983 - Tim Lawrence Hans Bellmer and Tanizaki Jun’ichiro­Life and Death On The New York Dance Floor by Tim Lawrence ISBN 9780822362029 paperback Duke Univ. Press *** As 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 citys subterranean party venues as well as the way