| | | | The Disco Files 1973–78New York's Underground, Week by WeekBy Vince Aletti. Interview with Fran Lebowitz.
 A new edition of the essential chronicle of disco cultureIn 1973, Vince Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene. His engagement with disco nightlife continued throughout the decade as he wrote his weekly column for Record World magazine, which incorporated top ten playlists from DJs across the US (such as Larry Levan, Larry Sanders, Walter Gibbons, Tee Scott and Nicky Siano) alongside Aletti's own writings and interviews. As disco grew from an underground secret to a billion-dollar industry, Aletti was there to document it, and The Disco Files is his personal memoir of those days, containing everything he wrote on the subject (most of it between 1974 and1978) augmented with photography by Peter Hujar and Toby Old. This book is the definitive and essential chronicle of disco, true from-the-trenches reporting that details, week by week, the evolution of the clubs, the DJs, and above all, the music, through magazine articles, beautiful photographs, hundreds of club charts and thousands of record reviews. Photocopies of Aletti's Record World columns circulated for years among DJs and music lovers, until they were finally collected in 2009 into the first edition of The Disco Files, an instant classic that quickly sold out. This new edition of The Disco Files brings Aletti's compulsively readable disco writing back into print, adding an interview with Fran Lebowitz originally published in the Village Voice in 1990. Throughout his career, curator, writer and critic Vince Aletti (born 1945) has been at the forefront of music, culture and the arts. He wrote for Record World and Rolling Stone and covered the club scene in the late 1970s and 1980s for the Village Voice, where he would serve as art editor until 2005. In addition to curating numerous photography exhibitions, Aletti writes about photography for the New Yorker.
Portrait of Vince Aletti, © Peter Hujar Archive, is reproduced from 'The Disco Files.'PRAISE AND REVIEWSBookforum Melissa Anderson A first-rate disco first-responder, he has catholic tastes, boundless curiosity, and a genial voice. L'Officiel Nell Beram [Aletti's] firsthand account of New York's halcyon days of disco is totally groovy. AnOther Man Magazine Sara Rosen Aletti became the first person to write about the emerging disco scene, chronicling its rise from the underground to the top of the charts, introducing Black and Latinx gay culture to the world. In his weekly column for Record World magazine, Aletti showcased the latest breaking records, top ten playlists from DJs like Larry Levan, Walter Gibbons, and Nicky Siano, scoops and reviews. Paris Review Vince Aletti is disco's greatest chronicler, the first writer to cover the emerging scene. New Yorker Hua Hsu Aletti’s book offers a different version of the disco experience, one that is premised not on mythically great nights out but on conversation and careful study of one’s record collection. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/23/2023 February is always a hard month, let's face it. We're picking ourselves up with a fresh shipment of The Disco Files 1973–78, Vince Aletti’s rejuvenating 474-page week-by-week chronicle of NYC’s underground music scene during the wild and wonderful 1970s. Featured photograph, selected from 400 black-and-white images from Aletti’s archive, is Peter Hujar's "Two Drag Queens Mugging, Halloween (II)" (1978, © Peter Hujar Archive). Between these ephemeral documents and Aletti's riveting, in-the-trenches columns, writings, interviews and playlists, this is nothing short of an historical document that no disco-era music lover's bookshelf should be without. continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/11/2018 Sunday, December 16 from 2–10 PM, Hard to Read presents The Disco Files, a celebration of the new edition of Vince Aletti's classic document of the early days of disco music and culture, guest-curated by Prince Language. Join us for a signing and Q&A with Vince Aletti conducted by White Columns Director Matthew Higgs; Morgan Bassichis reading Douglas Crimp; a dance party with legendary DJ Danny Krivit and more!
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