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The series documented the impact that disco music had on popular culture in the 1970s. The show featured several disco innovators and people related to the culture including: Marty Angelo - Producer, Disco Step-by-Step. Charlie Anzalone - Club DJ. Maurice Brahms - Club owner, Infinity. Harry Wayne Casey - Lead singer of KC and the Sunshine Band.
The Secret Disco Revolution is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jamie Kastner and released in 2012. [1] Profiling the disco genre of music and the club culture surrounding it, the film is structured around academic Alice Echols's thesis that the genre played an important role in spurring advances in gender, racial and LGBTQ equality in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Eurodisco (also spelled as Euro disco) is the variety of European forms of electronic dance music that evolved from disco in the middle 1970s, incorporating elements of pop and rock into a disco-like continuous dance atmosphere. Many Eurodisco compositions feature lyrics sung in English, although the singers often share a different mother ...
In this episode are the songs most identified with the genre, and the disco divas are given their due through the specific lens of Stanton, Thelma Houston, and, later, the rise of women through ...
"Disco: The Soundtrack of a Revolution," airing on PBS Tuesday, ties the music not just to its place in the evolution of pop but to the liberation movements of the time.
The Seventies. The Seventies is a documentary miniseries which premiered on CNN on June 11, 2015. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman ' studio Playtone, and serving as a follow-up to The Sixties, the 8-part series chronicled events and popular culture of the United States during the 1970s. [1] In February 2016, CNN announced that it would ...
Oct. 30—Grainy TV news footage from 1979 shows thousands of people swarming over the field at Chicago's Comiskey Park, burning stacks of dance records and holding banners that read "Disco Sucks."
Sylvester. Sylvester James Jr. (September 6, 1947 – December 16, 1988), known simply as Sylvester, was an American singer-songwriter. Primarily active in the genres of disco, rhythm and blues, and soul, he was known for his flamboyant and androgynous appearance, falsetto singing voice, and hit disco singles in the late 1970s and 1980s.