Paranoia at the Disco
Once largely derided as shallow, faddish consumerist music, disco has been reappraised as the stifled sounds of cultural liberation. Of course, it could always be both.
Jesse Walker
is books editor of Reason. He is the author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (HarperCollins) and Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America (NYU Press).