The catalogue extends the Philharmonie de Paris exhibition on the last utopia of the 20th century, as festive as it was militant. Rooted in African-American cultures, disco is a multi-faceted musical genre that became a global movement without ever leaving the social and activist context that saw it born. The book celebrates the collective and intimate upheavals of the disco era through period documents, works by artists and texts by specialists, and follows its imprint on technology, the arts, fashion and design.