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The origins of disco in the Black and Brown gay clubs of New York City is commonplace knowledge, but Disco sets the story in the social, political, economic, and musical context of the time. As ...
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
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [132] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [133] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 134 ]
Some genres of music were so specific to a certain time period, that they’ve either become a joke or seem unimaginable in modern society. These genres of decades past are probably gone for good ...
After Philosophy of the World was reissued in 1980, Rolling Stone suggested that it was the worst album ever recorded. [3] In 2022, Vice wrote that it was the "best worst album of all time". [ 4 ] It developed a cult following , [ 5 ] with fans including Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain .
The story of Casablanca Records has been told by many — in books, articles and by the larger-than-life characters who lived through the salad days of mid- to late-1970s rock and disco music.
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.
By John Dorn It was a night that brought one of the most destructive revolutions in professional sports history, but one that has been largely forgotten as the decades have blown by. July 12, 1979 ...