Let the Music Play: How RnB fell in Love with 80's Synths miles davis and collaborations that shaped global

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Franz Ferdinand

Ronson evokes the specific rush of that decade and those spaces—where fashion folks and rappers on the rise danced alongside club kids and 9-to-5'ers—and invites us into the tribe of creatives and partiers who came alive when the sun went down

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ISBN: 9781474624121

Let the Music Play: How RnB fell in Love with 80's Synths miles davis and collaborations that shaped globalAuthor Steven Vass Let the Music Play: How R&B Fell in Love with 80s Synths is the overlooked story of how R&B, disco and funk were transformed by the explosion of music tech in the era of ghetto blasters and Ronald Reagan. It traces how pioneers like Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock inspired a new generation of black musicians and producers to reinvent music with a whole new set of rules. From superstars like Prince and Sade to production geniuses