Miqui Puig He says that he generally doesn't like music books "because they have very standard patterns"; in fact, despite his long career as a musician, the memoirs he has just published (I didn't want to be Miqui Puig. A sentimental chronology of a love singer.) aren't exactly a music book either. However, their recommendation is: The secret history of the disc (Caja Negra, 2012). It's an essay by Peter Shapiro on the historical origins of disco music that "at no point draws on the clichés of dance music," but rather takes an "almost sociological" approach. In this sense, Shapiro's analysis focuses on three aspects: the racial, sexual, and class integration that took shape during this musical revolution. "It talks a lot about the importance of Latinos, gays, and Black people in disco music," Puig explains. "The book has a working-class perspective that I really like. In fact, there's a chapter dedicated to northern soul as a working-class musical subculture," he adds.