Alice Echols

Alice Echols appears in the following:

Who's Afraid of Disco?

Monday, December 12, 2011

Last week, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its 2012 inductees – and disco divas Donna Summer and Chaka Khan didn’t make the cut. We discuss modern-day perceptions of disco with Alice Echols, author of "Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture" and Dan Balis, co-founder of disco revival band Escort.

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Dance Dance Revolution

Friday, November 26, 2010

It may have provided the soundtrack for the “Me Decade” of the 1970s, but disco was anything but shallow and disposable. Author Alice Echols joins us to talk about disco's role as harbinger of social change.

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Dance Dance Revolution

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

It may have provided the soundtrack for the “Me Decade” of the 1970s, but disco was anything but shallow and disposable. Author Alice Echols joins us to talk about disco's role as harbinger of social change.

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Disco Revolution

Friday, July 16, 2010

Disco is supposedly dead, but University of Southern California professor Alice Echols tells Kurt it's very much alive in the pop music we hear today. Echols' new book is Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture.

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