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''Off White'' is a 1979 album by American no wave band James White and the Blacks. ==History== In late 1978, ZE Records co-founder Michael Zilkha approached James Chance and offered Chance $10,000 to record a disco album.〔Masters 92.〕 Zilkha gave little direction and asked the band for its own take on the genre. Anya Phillips, Chance's manager and girlfriend, came up with the idea to rename James Chance and the Contortions to James White and the Blacks for the album.〔 An alternate name, James White and His Blacks, was rejected by Zilkha. Phillips and the band put together outfits resembling 1960s soul singers.〔Reynolds 155.〕 Chance said that he was interested in the monotonous sound of disco music because it "doesn't have beginnings and ends". His persona is an homage to soul musician James Brown. Chance was also intrigued by the shock value of a punk group embracing disco.〔Reynolds 154.〕 He received disco records for free and passed time listening to a record for several seconds before throwing it out a window.〔Moore and Coley 95.〕 Chance wrote a piece for the first issue of ''East Village Eye'', praising disco and denouncing "outdated, cornball 'new/no wave' drivel".〔 ''Off White'' includes contributions from Lydia Lunch, Robert Quine, and Vivienne Dick.〔Masters 93.〕 The band spend most of its budget recording the album's first side and used instrumentals for the second side.〔Moore and Coley 98.〕 The album often discusses racial issues, and most of its titles are references to race.〔Young 40.〕 Some responded to the ''Off White'' with accusations of racism.〔Masters 94.〕 Chance later responded, "I was the one that brought black music onto the whole punk scene, and I took a lot of shit for it…I was just playing with my whole image of a white person doing black music." James White and the Blacks promoted the album with a February 1979 performance at Club 57 in the East Village, Manhattan.〔 ZE rented Irving Plaza for the album's launch party, where the band lip synced its songs. The band's live performances included two teenage dancers called the Disco Lolitas.〔 The band released "Contort Yourself" as a 12" vinyl single.〔 The song originally appeared on ''Buy'', and the group re-recorded it with a disco beat. Chance observed that the tempo was too fast to be played in discos, so ZE labelmate August Darnell created a remix of it. Darnell used a slower tempo and wrote a new guitar part. James White and the Blacks' version of "Contort Yourself" was later included in ZE's 1981 ''Mutant Disco'' compilation, its 2003 ''NY No Wave'' compilation, Strut Records' 2008 ''Disco Not Disco 3'', and ZE's 2009 compilation for its 30th anniversary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「off white」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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