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Stan Mack is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author best known for his observational comic strip Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies, which ran in The Village Voice for more than 20 years. He was an early pioneer of documentary cartooning and is the author of numerous graphic nonfiction books addressing a wide range of social and historical ...
Village People is an American disco group known for its on-stage costumes and suggestive lyrics in their music. The group was originally formed by French producers Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo and lead singer Victor Willis [ 1 ] following the release of the debut album Village People , which targeted disco's large gay audience.
In the late 1960s and 1970s, she was the first pop music critic for the New Yorker, and later wrote for, among others, the Village Voice, The Nation, Rolling Stone, Slate, and Salon, as well as Dissent, where she was also on the editorial board. She was the author of several books of collected essays.
[citation needed] A later Village Voice feature story acknowledged Musto's breaking item. The movie " Party Monster " (2003) includes reference to a Musto item, and Musto has appeared in many related documentaries, including "Disco Bloodbath" and A&E's " American Justice ", as well as several Geraldo Rivera shows, where he had long been the ...
Willis agreed to sing lead and background vocals under the guise of Village People, an at-that-point non-existent concept group.The album Village People was released in July 1977, including the hits "San Francisco (You've Got Me)" and "In Hollywood (Everybody is a Star)", and became a huge hit in the burgeoning disco market.
The Pazz & Jop was introduced by The Village Voice in 1971 as an album-only poll; [5] it was expanded to include votes for singles in 1979. [6] Throughout the years, other minor lists had been elicited from poll respondents for releases such as extended plays, [7] music videos, [8] album re-issues, [9] and compilation albums—all of which were discontinued after only a few years. [10]
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Frederick William McDarrah (November 5, 1926 – November 6, 2007) was an American staff photographer for The Village Voice and an author. He is best known for documenting the cultural phenomenon known as the Beat Generation from its inception in the 1950s.