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The early house music sound was a "dialogue" between Hispanic, [2] and Black American post-disco [3] [4] [5] and European post-punk [6] [7] electronic music and their traditions with Italo-disco picked or, emulated the most, [8] as the template for house music. [9]
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.
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The Warehouse was a place that allowed house music to flourish as a continuation of disco under Frankie Knuckles. It continued the tradition of making music for the club, for people to truly feel and to create a holy dance atmosphere and experience over just trying to make something that could get hits on the radio or top 40 charts.
This is a list of artists primarily associated with the disco era of the 1970s and some of their most noteworthy disco hits. Numerous artists, not usually considered disco artists, implemented some of the styles and sounds of disco music, and are also included.
Whitburn, Joel (2004), Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, ISBN 0-89820-156-X, archived from the original on 2010-03-16 Some weeks may also be found at Billboard magazine courtesy of Google Books : 1975—1979 .
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Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars.