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Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

The song of the machine : from disco to DJs to techno, a graphic novel of electronic music / David Blot & Mathias Cousin ; foreword by Daft Punk ; translated from the French by Joseph Laredo.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2019.

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Summary:

"A pulsating graphic novel on the epic history of electronic music, from the heyday of disco in the 1970s to the rave culture of the 1990s and beyond" -- Cover.

Subjects:

Electronic dance music -- History and criticism -- Comic books, strips, etc.

House music -- History.

Electronic dance music -- History and criticism.

Genre:

Graphic novels.

Nonfiction comics.

Other Author:

Cousin, Mathias, 1972-2002, author.

Laredo, Joseph, translator.

Daft Punk (Musical group), writer of foreword.

Other Title:

Chant de la machine. English

Notes:

Originally published in 2000 as: Le chant de la machine.

"Originally published in 2000, and updated in 2016, by Éditions Allia, France" -- title page verso.

Translated from the French.

Contents:

Foreword / Daft Punk -- Prime time : Before the Machine -- Disco mania : When the machine goes wild -- Larry Levan and Paradise Garage : The new elixir -- Chicago and house music : Chi-town Selection -- Detroit : techno city -- Manchester : So much to answer for -- The fourth dimension : the story of mdma -- Rave on: Everything starts with an e -- Remembering Stanley Rose : Garage, deep, and house selection -- Paradise lost : a nineties soundtrack -- Bonus beats -- Afterword : Days of future past : 2002-2020.

LCCN:

2019937391

ISBN:

9780316526173

0316526177

9780316526173

0316526177

Other Number:

1085593339

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

1051048

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

GRAPHIC NOVEL Song of