The Resource Le Freak : an upside down story of family, disco, and destiny, Nile Rodgers
Le Freak : an upside down story of family, disco, and destiny, Nile Rodgers
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- Summary
- Today's pop music--genre-crossing, gender-bending, racially mixed, visually stylish, and dominated by dance music with global appeal--is the world that Nile Rodgers created. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote and produced the songs that defined that era and everything that came after. Aside from his own band, Chic, he worked with everyone from Diana Ross and Madonna to David Bowie and Duran Duran, transforming their music and redefining what a pop song could be. But before he reinvented pop music, Nile Rodgers invented himself. Born into a mixed-race, bicoastal family of dope-fiend bohemians, he was on his own by age 16, half-hippie and half-Black Panther. He jammed with Jimi Hendrix, toured with Big Bird, and played in the legendary Apollo Theater house band. And then he discovered disco ... Here he gives us the behind-the-scenes tales of the songs we all know, and lovingly re-creates the outsider subcultures that live on in the world of pop he helped to set in motion.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Prologue: the theory of relativity
- Can they be that close? : The ballad of Beverly and Bobby ; Nothing to fear but the fear of fear itself ; Go West, young boy ; Like fathers, like sons-variations on a Mormon theme ; Hippie happenstance ; In search of the lost chord
- Roam if you want to : Chic sh*t happens: the rise and call of the disco revolution ; The second wind ; Let's dance ... again ; Who's that opening-act girl? ; Anything worth doing is worth overdoing! ; Vive la révolution!
- I made it through the wilderness : The dance, dance, dance of death ; We're gonna party like it's 1996 ; We are family
- Isbn
- 9780385529655
- Label
- Le Freak : an upside down story of family, disco, and destiny
- Title
- Le Freak
- Title remainder
- an upside down story of family, disco, and destiny
- Statement of responsibility
- Nile Rodgers
- Title variation
- Upside down story of family, disco, and destiny
- Subject
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- trueAfrican American musicians -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Composers
- trueComposers -- United States -- Biography
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Guitarists
- trueGuitarists -- United States -- Biography
- Popular music
- truePopular music -- United States -- History and criticism
- Rodgers, Nile
- Rodgers, Nile
- Sound recording executives and producers
- trueSound recording executives and producers -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Today's pop music--genre-crossing, gender-bending, racially mixed, visually stylish, and dominated by dance music with global appeal--is the world that Nile Rodgers created. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote and produced the songs that defined that era and everything that came after. Aside from his own band, Chic, he worked with everyone from Diana Ross and Madonna to David Bowie and Duran Duran, transforming their music and redefining what a pop song could be. But before he reinvented pop music, Nile Rodgers invented himself. Born into a mixed-race, bicoastal family of dope-fiend bohemians, he was on his own by age 16, half-hippie and half-Black Panther. He jammed with Jimi Hendrix, toured with Big Bird, and played in the legendary Apollo Theater house band. And then he discovered disco ... Here he gives us the behind-the-scenes tales of the songs we all know, and lovingly re-creates the outsider subcultures that live on in the world of pop he helped to set in motion.--From publisher description
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10009416
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Rodgers, Nile
- Dewey number
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- 781.64092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- ML429.R64
- LC item number
- A3 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Rodgers, Nile
- Rodgers, Nile
- Guitarists
- Composers
- Sound recording executives and producers
- Popular music
- Composers
- Guitarists
- Popular music
- Sound recording executives and producers
- United States
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- an upside down story of family, disco, and destiny
- Label
- Le Freak : an upside down story of family, disco, and destiny, Nile Rodgers
- Note
- Includes index
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- volume
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- nc
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: the theory of relativity -- Can they be that close? : The ballad of Beverly and Bobby ; Nothing to fear but the fear of fear itself ; Go West, young boy ; Like fathers, like sons-variations on a Mormon theme ; Hippie happenstance ; In search of the lost chord -- Roam if you want to : Chic sh*t happens: the rise and call of the disco revolution ; The second wind ; Let's dance ... again ; Who's that opening-act girl? ; Anything worth doing is worth overdoing! ; Vive la révolution! -- I made it through the wilderness : The dance, dance, dance of death ; We're gonna party like it's 1996 ; We are family
- Control code
- ocn699764805
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780385529655
- Lccn
- 2011015885
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40020067579
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)699764805
- Label
- Le Freak : an upside down story of family, disco, and destiny, Nile Rodgers
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: the theory of relativity -- Can they be that close? : The ballad of Beverly and Bobby ; Nothing to fear but the fear of fear itself ; Go West, young boy ; Like fathers, like sons-variations on a Mormon theme ; Hippie happenstance ; In search of the lost chord -- Roam if you want to : Chic sh*t happens: the rise and call of the disco revolution ; The second wind ; Let's dance ... again ; Who's that opening-act girl? ; Anything worth doing is worth overdoing! ; Vive la révolution! -- I made it through the wilderness : The dance, dance, dance of death ; We're gonna party like it's 1996 ; We are family
- Control code
- ocn699764805
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xiv, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780385529655
- Lccn
- 2011015885
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40020067579
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)699764805
Subject
- trueAfrican American musicians -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Composers
- trueComposers -- United States -- Biography
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Guitarists
- trueGuitarists -- United States -- Biography
- Popular music
- truePopular music -- United States -- History and criticism
- Rodgers, Nile
- Rodgers, Nile
- Sound recording executives and producers
- trueSound recording executives and producers -- United States -- Biography
- United States
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