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dancecult-901	De Ledesma, Charlie -	Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor 1980–1983 (Tim Lawrence)	2016		.htm	text/html	1391	44	54	On the title, Lawrence explains, “the reference to life is intended to evoke the way that New York party culture didn’t merely survive the hyped death of disco but positively flourished in its wake”. Finally, as Lawrence draws his paean to the era’s ethic of “democratic socializing” (461) to a close, he draws out parallel urban lives and deaths: “Clearly the task of redemocratizing New York and indeed other global cities remains daunting, yet the gathering desire to listen to music, dance, and engage creatively with a level of public freedom that was once taken for granted is visceral.	cache/dancecult-901.htm	txt/dancecult-901.txt