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Book Synopsis"A thumping good read." —
The AtlanticTrade Review"Engrossing…
Hot Stuff is not just about disco; it reexamines the ’70s as a decade of revolution." -- James Gavin - New York Times
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Hot Stuff is a thoroughly researched, scholarly credible and fiercely entertaining dissection of disco’s origins and influence…An endearing platform—with matching shoes—to the music we can’t and shouldn’t forget." -- Warren Pederson - San Francisco Chronicle
"An alternate account of those hazy-crazy yesteryears that’s ultimately indispensable." -- Smith Galtney - Time Out
"A quietly dazzling history…
Hot Stuff is the result of a lifetime of thinking deeply about the music and its influence." -- Peter Terzian - Los Angeles Times
"Exhilarating, perceptive…an important work of cultural and musical resuscitation, written with a scholar’s acumen but a fan’s ardor." -- Melissa Anderson - Newsday
"Remarkable…Carried along by prose that is as sleek and slinky as its subject." -- Christine Stansell, author of The Feminist Promise
"Echols aims for—and thoroughly achieves—a range of higher cultural insights…Revelatory." -- Publishers Weekly
"A well-researched, culturally sensitive time capsule." -- Kirkus Reviews
"[An] entertaining and convincing reclamation of what was once Western culture’s most reviled music…It’s a scholarly read powered by the thump-thump of Giorgio Moroder’s synths; you’ll find yourself humming
Ring My Bell and searching YouTube for evidence of Sylvester’s fabulosity." -- Evelyn McDonnell - Miami Herald
