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Disco music and culture, as it was known in the 1970s, was effectively dead a short time later. There have been several links to homophobia and racism as true motives for the demolition, ...
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.
During the spring and summer of 2020, as protests across the country illuminated the systematic injustices Black Americans have faced and continue to face, the music industry was one of many that ...
The ”Disco Sucks” movement of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s was rooted in both homophobia and racism. It’s nice to see the genre being embraced now by people like Dua Lipa or Beyoncé.
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.
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.
[23] [25] Funk music was used by black youth after the euphoria of the civil rights movement faded to express their own concerns with poverty, segregation, and the plight of the working class. [24] Disco music started in black queer communities as a way to escape discrimination and "dissolve of restrictions on black/gay people". [25]
Disco continues the story, tracing the evolution of the sound to house music from David Mancuso and The Loft in New York City to Frankie Knuckles and the Warehouse in Chicago.