James Arena

The definitive source document of the era. A must for fans of the history of early house and disco.

I received this book from LibraryThing as part of the Early Reviewer program. Thanks! I highly recommend this book, it really transports the reader back in time to the Disco era. The oral history interviews are important contributions to musical history and to race, gender and sometimes class history in the U.S.

This is a great encyclopedic-style reference to virtually all the women who contributed to the muscial genre of disco. Full of trivia! I thoroughly enjoyed perusing it. It brought back a great deal of memories of the era! Highly recommended.

First Ladies of Disco: 32 Stars Discuss the Era and Their Singing Careers by James Arena is a book I received via LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program. I don't really know a lot about the disco era or the singers of that era, other than just enjoying the music that I listened to at the time. Though not all female "disco" performers are included in this book, there are enough to give a good overall view of that era.