Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever
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Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever

  1. 152 pages
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Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever

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About This Book

Saturday Night Fever is simultaneously one of the biggest-selling albums of all time and one of the most reviled. How can a record create such a polarizing reaction? Australian writer Clinton Walker attempts to answer that question and finds that, among other things, a certain seemingly unlikely Australianness is part of the reason. Fever was a supernova for disco, for the Bee Gees, for the domineering Robert Stigwood, producer of the film and its true auteur, and for the entire record business. This book traces all the interdependent convolutions that fed into the film and its music – not least the Australian roots that Stigwood and Gibb brothers shared, which gave them an Otherness and almost gormless, shape-shifting self-determination – and it finds that sometimes great art can be made by a committee... that sometimes, five songs are enough to change the world.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2024
ISBN
9798765109670
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Dedication
  5. Title
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction: Brisbane, me and the Bee Gees – and Robert Stigwood
  8. 1 Disco opera
  9. 2 The gumnut mafia, rock operas and the new film musical
  10. 3 Miami nice
  11. 4 Hollywood now
  12. 5 Supernova
  13. 6 Death to Disco, Death to the record business, Kill the Bee Gees
  14. Notes
  15. Selected sources
  16. Additional sources
  17. Index: Songs
  18. Index: General
  19. Copyright