# The runs that hand off

Movement Five of every volume names what the next one picks up. Three of those hand-offs are the argument of the whole series.

## The Reaction

Volumes 16, 17, 18. Disco is not punk’s opposite. It is punk’s cause. Read the three in order and the reaction stops looking like an accident.

## The Survival

Volumes 16, 21, 22. The same parent going the other way: what disco became in Chicago and Detroit after America was told to hate it, and what that became in a field outside London.

## The Raw Material

Volumes 15, 19, 23. Funk was not an influence on hip-hop. It was the physical stock it was cut from, and then it was a lawsuit.