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  2. Disco Demolition Night - Wikipedia

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    Disco Demolition Night was a Major League Baseball (MLB) promotion on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, that ended in a riot.At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers.

  3. Chicago house - Wikipedia

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    One of the primary elements in house dancing is "the jack" or "jacking" — a style created in the early days of Chicago house that left its trace in numerous record titles such as "Time to Jack" by Chip E. from the "Jack Trax" EP (1985), "Jack’n the House" (1985) by Farley "Jackmaster" Funk (1985) or "Jack Your Body" by Steve "Silk" Hurley ...

  4. Warehouse (nightclub) - Wikipedia

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    Chicago house was a specifically black gay genre in many ways for many years and the Warehouse was a specific space that cultivated that scene in a safe way. Black music was at the heart of the disco era and it is impossible to separate the roots of disco from the disenfranchised queer people of color that flocked to it.

  5. Post-disco - Wikipedia

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    Post-disco is a term and genre to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with the backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of new wave in 1980.

  6. List of nightclub fires - Wikipedia

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    1979 0 0 "Club Patrons Routed By Fire in Building". The New York Times. 15 February 1979: possibly arson Former location of Pfaff's Beer Cellar: Limelight Disco fire Hallandale, Florida: United States 1980 0 1 [2] possibly arson Formerly the Old Heidelberg restaurant and Rumbottoms disco Denmark Place fire: Central London

  7. Ron Hardy - Wikipedia

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    Ron Hardy (May 8, 1958 – March 2, 1992) was an American, Chicago, Illinois-based DJ and record producer of early house music. He is well known for playing records at the Muzic Box, a Chicago house music club. Decades after his death, he is recognized for his innovative edits and mixes of disco, soul music, funk and early house music.

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  9. Frank Cullotta - Wikipedia

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    In early 1979, Cullotta moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to join Spilotro, who had already been there since 1971, [4] with his group of experienced thieves, safecrackers, and killers. [2] The burglary crew became known in the media as the "Hole in the Wall Gang" because of its penchant and skill for gaining entry to homes and buildings by drilling ...