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{{for|the album by the band [[Dark Tranquillity]]|The Gallery (album)}} |
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'''The Gallery''' was a [[disco]] in [[SoHo]], [[Manhattan]] which was opened in February 1972 by disc jockey [[Nicky Siano]] and his older brother [[Joe Siano]]. The first location of The Gallery, located on 132 West 22nd Street, closed in July 1974. It reopened in November 1974 at 172 Mercer and Houston Streets and closed in October 1977.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Gallery: The Story of the Legendary New York Disco 1972-77 |url= https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/the-gallery-the-story-of-the-legendary-new-york-disco-1972-77 |accessdate=December 20, 2021}}</ref> Famed DJs [[Larry Levan]] and [[Frankie Knuckles]] both worked at the club, but not at the DJ booth. [[Grace Jones]] and [[Loleatta Holloway]] both made their debut performances at The Gallery.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}} |
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The Gallery was a [[disco]] in [[SoHo]], [[Manhattan]] which was opened in [[1972]] by [[Nicky Siano]] and his older brother [[Joe Siano]]. |
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==Disco's House of Worship== |
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The disco era produced an attitude and culture popular among a majority of the population, but proved to be an especially crucial time for the emergence and empowerment of traditionally marginalized and disadvantaged groups, as blacks, gays, and women found security in the community built around dance clubs such as The Gallery. This safety provided by The Gallery in the 1970s created a catharsis for minorities though the temporary relief from harsh outside realities.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reynolds|first1=Tim|title=Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader|date=2009|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana and Chicago|pages=199–214|url=http://www.timlawrence.info/articles2/2013/7/16/beyond-the-hustle-seventies-social-dancing-discotheque-culture-and-the-emergence-of-the-contemporary-club-dancer}}</ref> The club “[featured] ritualized activities centered around music, dance, and worship, in which there [were] no set boundaries between secular and sacred domains”.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fikentscher|first1=Kai|title=You Better Work! Underground Dance Music in New York City|date=August 18, 2000|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|location=Hanover, New Hampshire|page=101}}</ref> |
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==Popular references== |
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[[Category:Nightclubs_in_New_York_City]] |
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==Further reading== |
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* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=VScwbwVi2cwC&q=gallery Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever]'' by Will Hermes, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2012) |
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* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=MxTnBAAAQBAJ&q=gallery Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey]'' by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, Grove Atlantic (2014) |
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* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=qIdH2yR41bIC&q=gallery Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979]'' by Tim Lawrence, Duke University Press (2004) |
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* ''[https://archive.org/details/holdontoyourdrea00lawr/page/126/mode/2up/search/gallery?q=%22the+gallery%22+disco Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992]'' by Tim Lawrence, Duke University Press (2009) |
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* ''[https://archive.org/details/turnbeataround00pete/page/36/mode/2up/search/gallery?q=%22the+gallery%22+disco Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco]'' by Peter Shapiro, Faber and Faber (2005) |
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* ''[https://archive.org/details/recordplayersdjr00brew/page/146/mode/2up/search/gallery?q=%22the+gallery%22+disco The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries]'' by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, Black Cat (2010) |
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* ''[https://www.amazon.com/Disco-Music-Times-Johnny-Morgan/dp/1402780354/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=the+disco+files&qid=1583692791&sr=8-5#reader_1402780354 Disco: The Music, The Times, The Era]'' by Johnny Morgan, Sterling (2011) |
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* "[https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/apr/07/nyc-70s-club-scene-special-studio-54-the-gallery-nicky-siano 'The 1970s club scene in New York was special': Nicky Siano]" by Will Coldwell, The Guardian (Apr 7, 2017) |
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* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ALmePvKmNfgC&q=gallery "You Better Work!": Underground Dance Music in New York]'' by Kai Fikentscher, Wesleyan University Press (2000) |
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* "[https://thevinylfactory.com/features/nicky-siano-studio-54-interview/ Nicky Siano on disco, drugs and DJing at Studio 54]", The Vinyl Factory |
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* "[https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2018/02/nicky-siano-interview-dj-history Nicky Siano on the Gallery and the Dark Days of Disco]", DJHistory.com |
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* "[https://www.standardhotels.com/culture/the-standard-love-message Welcome to The Gallery!]", Standard Hotels |
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Latest revision as of 15:06, 20 March 2023
The Gallery was a disco in SoHo, Manhattan which was opened in February 1972 by disc jockey Nicky Siano and his older brother Joe Siano. The first location of The Gallery, located on 132 West 22nd Street, closed in July 1974. It reopened in November 1974 at 172 Mercer and Houston Streets and closed in October 1977.[1] Famed DJs Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles both worked at the club, but not at the DJ booth. Grace Jones and Loleatta Holloway both made their debut performances at The Gallery.[citation needed]
Disco's House of Worship
[edit]The disco era produced an attitude and culture popular among a majority of the population, but proved to be an especially crucial time for the emergence and empowerment of traditionally marginalized and disadvantaged groups, as blacks, gays, and women found security in the community built around dance clubs such as The Gallery. This safety provided by The Gallery in the 1970s created a catharsis for minorities though the temporary relief from harsh outside realities.[2] The club “[featured] ritualized activities centered around music, dance, and worship, in which there [were] no set boundaries between secular and sacred domains”.[3]
Popular references
[edit]John Mayer mentions The Gallery in his song "City Love".[citation needed]
Further reading
[edit]- Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2012)
- Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, Grove Atlantic (2014)
- Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 by Tim Lawrence, Duke University Press (2004)
- Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 by Tim Lawrence, Duke University Press (2009)
- Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco by Peter Shapiro, Faber and Faber (2005)
- The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, Black Cat (2010)
- Disco: The Music, The Times, The Era by Johnny Morgan, Sterling (2011)
- "'The 1970s club scene in New York was special': Nicky Siano" by Will Coldwell, The Guardian (Apr 7, 2017)
- "You Better Work!": Underground Dance Music in New York by Kai Fikentscher, Wesleyan University Press (2000)
- "Nicky Siano on disco, drugs and DJing at Studio 54", The Vinyl Factory
- "Nicky Siano on the Gallery and the Dark Days of Disco", DJHistory.com
- "Welcome to The Gallery!", Standard Hotels
References
[edit]- ^ "The Gallery: The Story of the Legendary New York Disco 1972-77". Retrieved December 20, 2021.
- ^ Reynolds, Tim (2009). Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. pp. 199–214.
- ^ Fikentscher, Kai (August 18, 2000). You Better Work! Underground Dance Music in New York City. Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press. p. 101.
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