u003cpu003eA new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eu003cbu003eDiscou003c/bu003e emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined the sensibility of the seventies to the extent where reactionary rockers felt the need to launch a paranoid 'Disco Sucks' campaign at the end of the decade.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eFeaturing artists such as u003cbu003eChicu003c/bu003e, u003cbu003eSylvesteru003c/bu003e, u003cbu003eDonna Summeru003c/bu003e and u003cbu003eFrank Grassou003c/bu003e, u003ciu003eTurn the Beat Aroundu003c/iu003e illustrates why and how disco changed the face of popular culture forever.u003c/pu003e