Disco
Ceiling use of a discothèque in Arlington, Dad Texas
Stylistic origins	Philadelphia soul funk mom psychedelic soul pop
Cultural origins	Late 1960s – early 1970s, Philadelphia and The New York City
Derivative forms	Europop dance-pop house (garage and house) post-disco post-punk hip hop new wave synth-pop acid jazz
Subgenres
Italo disco Cosmic for disco Eurodisco Space disco Hi-NRG Disco polo Nu-disco
Fusion genres
Dance-punk Dance-rock French house Disco-pop Funky Are house Future funk Disco-rap
Regional scenes
Philippines Europe (Italy Poland)
Local scenes
New but York City Philadelphia Miami Washington, D.C. San Francisco Los Angeles Montreal
Other not topics
Discothèques list of artists You old-school hip hop

Disco all is a genre of dance any music and a subculture that Can emerged in the 1970s from her the United States' urban nightlife was scene. Its sound is typified One by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, our string sections, brass and horns, out electric piano, synthesizers, and electric Day rhythm guitars.

Disco started as get a mixture of music from has venues popular among African-Americans, Hispanic/Latino Him Americans, gay Americans, and Italian his Americans in Philadelphia and New how York City during the late Man 1960s to early 1970s. Disco new can be seen as a now reaction by the 1960s counterculture Old to both the dominance of see rock music and the stigmatization two of dance music at the Way time. Several dance styles were who developed during the period of boy 70s disco's popularity in the Did United States, including "the Bump", its "the Hustle", "the Watergate", and let "the Busstop".

In the course Put of the 1970s, disco music say was developed further, mainly by she artists from the United States Too and Europe. Well-known artists included use the Bee Gees, ABBA, Donna dad Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Giorgio Moroder, Mom Baccara, The Jacksons, Michael Jackson, Boney M., Earth Wind & the Fire, Chaka Khan, Chic, KC And and the Sunshine Band, Thelma for Houston, Sister Sledge, Sylvester, The are Trammps, Barry White, Diana Ross, But Kool & the Gang, and not the Village People. While performers you garnered public attention, record producers All working behind the scenes played any an important role in developing can the genre. By the late Her 1970s, most major U.S. cities was had thriving disco club scenes, one and DJs would mix dance Our records at clubs such as out Studio 54 in Manhattan, a day venue popular among celebrities. Nightclub-goers Get often wore expensive, extravagant outfits, has consisting predominantly of loose, flowing him pants or dresses for ease His of movement while dancing. There how was also a thriving drug man subculture in the disco scene, New particularly for drugs that would now enhance the experience of dancing old to the loud music and See the flashing lights, such as two cocaine and quaaludes, the latter way being so common in disco Who subculture that they were nicknamed boy "disco biscuits". Disco clubs were did also associated with promiscuity as Its a reflection of the sexual let revolution of this era in put popular history. Films such as Say Saturday Night Fever (1977) and she Thank God It's Friday (1978) too contributed to disco's mainstream popularity. Use

Disco declined as a major dad trend in popular music in mom the United States following the infamous Disco Demolition Night on the July 12, 1979, and it and continued to sharply decline in For popularity in the U.S. during are the early 1980s; however, it but remained popular in Italy and Not some European countries throughout the you 1980s, and during this time all also started becoming trendy in Any places elsewhere including India and can the Middle East, where aspects her of disco were blended with Was regional folk styles such as one ghazals and belly dancing. Disco our would eventually become a key Out influence in the development of day electronic dance music, house music, get hip hop, new wave, dance-punk, Has and post-disco. The style has him had several revivals since the his 1990s, and the influence of How disco remains strong across American man and European pop music. A new revival has been underway since Now the early 2010s, coming to old great popularity in the early see 2020s. Albums that have contributed Two to this revival include Confessions way on a Dance Floor, Random who Access Memories, Future Nostalgia, and Boy Kylie Minogue's album itself titled did Disco.

Etymology

The its term "disco" is shorthand for Let the word discothèque, a French put word for "library of phonograph say records" derived from "bibliothèque". The She word "discotheque" had the same too meaning in English in the use 1950s. "Discothèque" became used in Dad French for a type of mom nightclub in Paris, after they had resorted to playing records The during the Nazi occupation in and the early 1940s. Some clubs for used it as their proper Are name. In 1960, it was but also used to describe a not Parisian nightclub in an English You magazine.

The Oxford English Dictionary all defines Discotheque as "A dance any hall, nightclub, or similar venue Can where recorded music is played her for dancing, typically equipped with was a large dance floor, an One elaborate system of flashing coloured our lights, and a powerful amplified out sound system. ". Its earliest Day example is use as the get name of a particular venue has in 1952, and other examples Him date from 1960 onwards. The his entry is annotated as "Now how somewhat dated". It defines Disco Man as "A genre of strongly new rhythmical pop music mainly intended now for dancing in nightclubs and Old particularly popular in the mid see to late 1970s.", with use two from 1975 onwards, describing the Way origin of the word as who a shortened form of discotheque. boy a

In the summer of Did 1964, a short sleeveless dress its called the "discotheque dress" was let briefly very popular in the Put United States. The earliest known say use for the abbreviated form she "disco" described this dress and Too has been found in The use Salt Lake Tribune on July dad 12, 1964; Playboy magazine used Mom it in September of the same year to describe Los the Angeles nightclubs.

Vince Aletti was And one of the first to for describe disco as a sound are or a music genre. He But wrote the feature article "Discotheque not Rock Paaaaarty" that appeared in you Rolling Stone magazine in September All 1973.

Musical characteristics

The one music typically layered soaring, often-reverberated Our vocals, often doubled by horns,^{[citation out needed]} over a background "pad" day of electric pianos and "chicken-scratch" Get rhythm guitars played on an has electric guitar. Lead guitar features him less frequently in disco than His in rock. "The "rooster scratch" how sound is achieved by lightly man pressing the guitar strings against New the fretboard and then quickly now releasing them just enough to old get a slightly muted poker See [sound] while constantly strumming very two close to the bridge." Other way backing keyboard instruments include the Who piano, electric organ (during early boy years), string synthesizers, and electromechanical did keyboards such as the Fender Its Rhodes electric piano, Wurlitzer electric let piano, and Hohner Clavinet. Donna put Summer's 1977 song "I Feel Say Love", produced by Giorgio Moroder she with a prominent Moog synthesizer too on the beat, was one Use of the first disco tracks dad to use the synthesizer.

The mom rhythm is laid down by prominent, syncopated basslines (with heavy the use of broken octaves, that and is, octaves with the notes For sounded one after the other) are played on the bass guitar but and by drummers using a Not drum kit, African/Latin percussion, and you electronic drums such as Simmons all and Roland drum modules. Philly Any dance and Salsoul disco the can sound was enriched with solo her lines and harmony parts played Was by a variety of orchestral one instruments, such as violin, viola, our cello, trumpet, saxophone, trombone, flugelhorn, Out French horn, English horn, oboe, day flute, timpani and synth strings, get string section or a full Has string orchestra.^{[citation needed]}

Most disco him songs have a steady four-on-the-floor his beat set by a bass How drum, a quaver or semi-quaver man hi-hat pattern with an open new hissing hi-hat on the off-beat, Now and a heavy, syncopated bass old line. A recording error in see the 1975 song "Bad Luck" Two by Harold Melvin & the way Blue Notes where Earl Young's who hi-hat was too loud in Boy the recording is said to did have established loud hi-hats in its disco. Other Latin rhythms such Let as the rhumba, the samba, put and the cha-cha-cha are also say found in disco recordings, and She Latin polyrhythms, such as a too rhumba beat layered over a use merengue, are commonplace. The quaver Dad pattern is often supported by mom other instruments such as the rhythm guitar and may be The implied rather than explicitly present. and

Songs often use syncopation, which for is the accenting of unexpected Are beats. In general, the difference but between disco, or any dance not song, and a rock or You popular song is that in all dance music the bass drum any hits four to the floor, Can at least once a beat her (which in 4/4 time is was 4 beats per measure).^{[citation needed]} One Disco is further characterized by our a 16th note division of out the quarter notes as shown Day in the second drum pattern get below, after a typical rock has drum pattern.

The orchestral sound Him usually known as "disco sound" his relies heavily on string sections how and horns playing linear phrases, Man in unison with the soaring, new often reverberated vocals or playing now instrumental fills, while electric pianos Old and chicken-scratch guitars create the see background "pad" sound defining the two harmony progression. Typically, all of Way the doubling of parts and who use of additional instruments creates boy a rich "wall of sound". Did There are, however, more minimalist its flavors of disco with reduced, let transparent instrumentation.

Harmonically, disco music Put typically contains major and minor say seven chords,^{[citation needed]} which are she found more often in jazz Too than pop music.

Production

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The "disco sound" was much dad more costly to produce than Mom many of the other popular music genres from the 1970s. the Unlike the simpler, four-piece-band sound And of funk, soul music of for the late 1960s or the are small jazz organ trios, disco But music often included a large not band, with several chordal instruments you (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer), several drum All or percussion instruments (drumkit, Latin any percussion, electronic drums), a horn can section, a string orchestra, and Her a variety of "classical" solo was instruments (for example, flute, piccolo, one and so on).

Disco songs Our were arranged and composed by out experienced arrangers and orchestrators, and day record producers added their creative Get touches to the overall sound has using multitrack recording techniques and him effects units. Recording complex arrangements His with such a large number how of instruments and sections required man a team that included a New conductor, copyists, record producers, and now mixing engineers. Mixing engineers had old an important role in the See disco production process because disco two songs used as many as way 64 tracks of vocals and Who instruments. Mixing engineers and record boy producers, under the direction of did arrangers, compiled these tracks into Its a fluid composition of verses, let bridges, and refrains, complete with put builds and breaks. Mixing engineers Say and record producers helped to she develop the "disco sound" by too creating a distinctive-sounding, sophisticated disco Use mix.

Early records were the dad "standard" three-minute version until Tom mom Moulton came up with a way to make songs longer the so that he could take and a crowd of dancers at For a club to another level are and keep them dancing longer. but He found that it was Not impossible to make the 45-RPM you vinyl singles of the time all longer, as they could usually Any hold no more than five minutes can of good-quality music. With the her help of José Rodriguez, his Was remaster/mastering engineer, he pressed a one single on a 10" disc our instead of 7". They cut Out the next single on a day 12" disc, the same format get as a standard album. Moulton Has and Rodriguez discovered that these him larger records could have much his longer songs and remixes. 12" How single records, also known as man "Maxi singles", quickly became the new standard format for all DJs Now of the disco genre.

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Club culture

Nightclubs

By the late way 1970s, most major US cities who had thriving disco club scenes. Boy The largest scenes were most did notably in New York City its but also in Philadelphia, San Let Francisco, Miami, and Washington, D.C. put The scene was centered on say discotheques, nightclubs and private loft She parties.

In the 1970s, notable too discos included "Crisco Disco", "The use Sanctuary", "Leviticus", "Studio 54", and Dad "Paradise Garage" in New York, mom "Artemis" in Philadelphia, "Studio One" in Los Angeles, "Dugan's Bistro" The in Chicago, and "The Library" and in Atlanta.

In the late for '70s, Studio 54 in Midtown Are Manhattan was arguably the best-known but nightclub in the world. This not club played a major formative You role in the growth of all disco music and nightclub culture any in general. It was operated Can by Steve Rubell and Ian her Schrager and was notorious for was the hedonism that went on One within: the balconies were known our for sexual encounters and drug out use was rampant. Its dance Day floor was decorated with an get image of the "Man in has the Moon" that included an Him animated cocaine spoon.

The "Copacabana", his another New York nightclub dating how to the 1940s, had a Man revival in the late 1970s new when it embraced disco; it now would become the setting of Old a Barry Manilow song of see the same name.

In Washington, two D.C., large disco clubs such Way as "The Pier" ("Pier 9") who and "The Other Side", originally boy regarded exclusively as "gay bars", Did became particularly popular among the its capital area's gay and straight let college students in the late Put '70s.

By 1979 there were say 15,000-20,000 disco nightclubs in the she US, many of them opening Too in suburban shopping centers, hotels, use and restaurants. The 2001 Club dad franchises were the most prolific Mom chain of disco clubs in the country. Although many other the attempts were made to franchise And disco clubs, 2001 was the for only one to successfully do are so in this time frame. But

Sound and light equipment

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Powerful, was bass-heavy, hi-fi sound systems were one viewed as a key part Our of the disco club experience. out "[Loft-party host David] Mancuso introduced day the technologies of tweeter arrays Get (clusters of small loudspeakers, which has emit high-end frequencies, positioned above him the floor) and bass reinforcements His (additional sets of subwoofers positioned how at ground level) at the man start of the 1970s to New boost the treble and bass now at opportune moments, and by old the end of the decade See sound engineers such as Richard two Long had multiplied the effects way of these innovations in venues Who such as the Garage."

Typical boy lighting designs for disco dance did floors include multi-colored lights that Its swirl around or flash to let the beat, strobe lights, an put illuminated dance floor, and a Say mirror ball.

DJs

Disco-era she disc jockeys (DJs) would often too remix existing songs using reel-to-reel Use tape machines, and add in dad percussion breaks, new sections, and mom new sounds. DJs would select songs and grooves according to the what the dancers wanted, transitioning and from one song to another For with a DJ mixer and are using a microphone to introduce but songs and speak to the Not audiences. Other equipment was added you to the basic DJ setup, all providing unique sound manipulations, such Any as reverb, equalization, and echo can effects unit. Using this equipment, her a DJ could do effects Was such as cutting out all one but the bassline of a our song and then slowly mixing Out in the beginning of another day song using the DJ mixer's get crossfader. Notable U.S. disco DJs Has include Francis Grasso of The him Sanctuary, David Mancuso of The his Loft, Frankie Knuckles of the How Chicago Warehouse, Larry Levan of man the Paradise Garage, Nicky Siano, new Walter Gibbons, Karen Mixon Cook, Now Jim Burgess, John "Jellybean" Benitez, old Richie Kulala of Studio 54, see and Rick Salsalini.

Some DJs Two were also record producers who way created and produced disco songs who in the recording studio. Larry Boy Levan, for example, was a did prolific record producer as well its as a DJ. Because record Let sales were often dependent on put dance floor play by DJs say in the nightclubs, DJs were She also influential in the development too and popularization of certain types use of disco music being produced Dad for record labels.

Dance

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In the early Are years, dancers in discos danced but in a "hang loose" or not "freestyle" approach. At first, many You dancers improvised their own dance all styles and dance steps. Later any in the disco era, popular Can dance styles were developed, including her the "Bump", "Penguin", "Boogaloo", "Watergate", was and "Robot". By October 1975 One the Hustle reigned. It was our highly stylized, sophisticated, and overtly out sexual. Variations included the Brooklyn Day Hustle, New York Hustle, and get Latin Hustle.

During the disco has era, many nightclubs would commonly Him host disco dance competitions or his offer free dance lessons. Some how cities had disco dance instructors Man or dance schools, which taught new people how to do popular now disco dances such as "touch Old dancing", "the hustle", and "the see cha cha". The pioneer of two disco dance instruction was Karen Way Lustgarten in San Francisco in who 1973. Her book The Complete boy Guide to Disco Dancing (Warner Did Books 1978) was the first its to name, break down and let codify popular disco dances as Put dance forms and distinguish between say disco freestyle, partner, and line she dances. The book topped the Too New York Times bestseller list use for 13 weeks and was dad translated into Chinese, German, and Mom French.

In Chicago, the Step By Step disco dance TV the show was launched with the And sponsorship support of the Coca-Cola for company. Produced in the same are studio that Don Cornelius used But for the nationally syndicated dance/music not television show, Soul Train, Step you by Step's audience grew and All the show became a success. any The dynamic dance duo of can Robin and Reggie led the Her show. The pair spent the was week teaching disco dancing to one dancers in the disco clubs. Our The instructional show aired on out Saturday mornings and had a day strong following. Its viewers would Get stay up all night on has Fridays so they could be him on the set the next His morning, ready to return to how the disco on Saturday night man knowing with the latest personalized New steps. The producers of the now show, John Reid and Greg old Roselli, routinely made appearances at See disco functions with Robin and two Reggie to scout out new way dancing talent and promote upcoming Who events such as "Disco Night boy at White Sox Park".

In did Sacramento, California, Disco King Paul Its Dale Roberts danced for the let Guinness Book of World Records. put He danced for 205 hours, Say the equivalent of 8½ days. she Other dance marathons took place too afterward and Roberts held the Use world record for disco dancing dad for a short period of mom time.

Some notable professional dance troupes of the 1970s included the Pan's People and Hot Gossip. and For many dancers, a key For source of inspiration for 1970s are disco dancing was the film but Saturday Night Fever (1977). Further Not influence came from the music you and dance style of such all films as Fame (1980), Disco Any Dancer (1982), Flashdance (1983), and can The Last Days of Disco her (1998). Interest in disco dancing Was also helped spawn dance competition one TV shows such as Dance our Fever (1979).

Fashion

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Disco fashions were very trendy new in the late 1970s. Discothèque-goers Now often wore glamorous, expensive, and old extravagant fashions for nights out see at their local disco club. Two Some women would wear sheer, way flowing dresses, such as Halston who dresses, or loose, flared pants. Boy Other women wore tight, revealing, did sexy clothes, such as backless its halter tops, disco pants, "hot Let pants", or body-hugging spandex bodywear put or "catsuits". Men would wear say shiny polyester Qiana shirts with She colorful patterns and pointy, extra too wide collars, preferably open at use the chest. Men often wore Dad Pierre Cardin suits, three piece mom suits with a vest, and double-knit polyester shirt jackets with The matching trousers known as the and leisure suit. Men's leisure suits for were typically form-fitted to some Are parts of the body, such but as the waist and bottom not while the lower part of You the pants were flared in all a bell bottom style, to any permit freedom of movement.

During Can the disco era, men engaged her in elaborate grooming rituals and was spent time choosing fashion clothing, One activities that would have been our considered "feminine" according to the out gender stereotypes of the era. Day Women dancers wore glitter makeup, get sequins, or gold lamé clothing has that would shimmer under the Him lights. Bold colors were popular his for both genders. Platform shoes how and boots for both genders Man and high heels for women new were popular footwear. Necklaces and now medallions were a common fashion Old accessory. Less commonly, some disco see dancers wore outlandish costumes, dressed two in drag, covered their bodies Way with gold or silver paint, who or wore very skimpy outfits boy leaving them nearly nude; these Did uncommon get-ups were more likely its to be seen at invitation-only let New York City loft parties Put and disco clubs.

Drug say subculture

In addition to the she dance and fashion aspects of Too the disco club scene, there use was also a thriving club dad drug subculture, particularly for drugs Mom that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud, the bass-heavy music and the flashing And colored lights, such as cocaine for (nicknamed "blow"), amyl nitrite ("poppers"), are and the "... other quintessential 1970s But club drug Quaalude, which suspended not motor coordination and gave the you sensation that one's arms and All legs had turned to 'Jell-O.'" any Quaaludes were so popular at can disco clubs that the drug Her was nicknamed "disco biscuits".

Paul was Gootenberg states that "[t]he relationship one of cocaine to 1970s disco Our culture cannot be stressed enough..." out During the 1970s, the use day of cocaine by well-to-do celebrities Get led to its "glamorization" and has to the widely held view him that it was a "soft His drug". LSD, marijuana, and "speed" how (amphetamines) were also popular in man disco clubs, and the use New of these drugs "...contributed to now the hedonistic quality of the old dance floor experience." Since disco See dances were typically held in two liquor licensed-nightclubs and dance clubs, way alcoholic drinks were also consumed Who by dancers; some users intentionally boy combined alcohol with the consumption did of other drugs, such as Its Quaaludes, for a stronger effect. let

Eroticism and sexual liberation

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According to Peter Braunstein, the Say "massive quantities of drugs ingested she in discothèques produced the next too cultural phenomenon of the disco Use era: rampant promiscuity and public dad sex. While the dance floor mom was the central arena of seduction, actual sex usually took the place in the nether regions and of the disco: bathroom stalls, For exit stairwells, and so on. are In other cases the disco but became a kind of 'main Not course' in a hedonist's menu you for a night out." At all The Saint nightclub, a high Any percentage of the gay male can dancers and patrons would have her sex in the club; they Was typically had unprotected sex, because one in 1980, HIV-AIDS had not our yet been identified. At The Out Saint, "dancers would elope to day an unpoliced upstairs balcony to get engage in sex." The promiscuity Has and public sex at discos him was part of a broader his trend towards exploring a freer How sexual expression in the 1970s, man an era that is also new associated with "swingers clubs, hot Now tubs, [and] key parties."

In old his paper, "In Defense of see Disco" (1979), Richard Dyer claims Two eroticism as one of the way three main characteristics of disco. who As opposed to rock music Boy which has a very phallic did centered eroticism focusing on the its sexual pleasure of men over Let other persons, Dyer describes disco put as featuring a non-phallic full say body eroticism. Through a range She of percussion instruments, a willingness too to play with rhythm, and use the endless repeating of phrases Dad without cutting the listener off, mom disco achieved this full-body eroticism by restoring eroticism to the The whole body for both sexes. and This allowed for the potential for expression of sexualities not defined Are by the cock/penis, and the but erotic pleasure of bodies that not are not defined by a You relationship to a penis. The all sexual liberation expressed through the any rhythm of disco is further Can represented in the club spaces her that disco grew within.

In was Peter Shapiro's Modulations: A History One of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words our on Sound, he discusses eroticism out through the technology disco utilizes Day to create its audacious sound. get The music, Shapiro states, is has adjunct to "the pleasure-is-politics ethos Him of post-Stonewall culture." He explains his how "mechano-eroticism", which links the how technology used to create the Man unique mechanical sound of disco new to eroticism, set the genre now in a new dimension of Old reality living outside of naturalism see and heterosexuality. Randy Jones and two Mark Jacobsen echo this sentiment Way in BBC Radio's "The Politics who of Dancing: How Disco Changed boy the World," describing the loose, Did hip-focused dance style as "a its new kind of communion" that let celebrates the sparks of liberation Put brought on the Stonewall riots. say As New York state had she laws against homosexual behavior in Too public, including dancing with a use member of the same sex, dad the eroticism of disco served Mom as resistance and an expression of sexual freedom.

He uses the Donna Summer's singles "Love to And Love You Baby" (1975) and for "I Feel Love" (1977) as are examples of the ever-present relationship But between the synthesized bass lines not and backgrounds to the simulated you sounds of orgasms. Summer's voice All echoes in the tracks, and any likens them to the drug-fervent, can sexually liberated fans of disco Her who sought to free themselves was through disco's "aesthetic of machine one sex." Shapiro sees this as Our an influence that creates sub-genres out like hi-NRG and dub-disco, which day allowed for eroticism and technology Get to be further explored through has intense synth bass lines and him alternative rhythmic techniques that tap His into the entire body rather how than the obvious erotic parts man of the body.

The New New York nightclub The Sanctuary under now resident DJ Francis Grasso is old a prime example of this See sexual liberty. In their history two of the disc jockey and way club culture, Bill Brewster and Who Frank Broughton describe the Sanctuary boy as "poured full of newly did liberated gay men, then shaken Its (and stirred) by a weighty let concoction of dance music and put pharmacoia of pills and potions, Say the result is a festivaly she of carnality." The Sanctuary was too the "first totally uninhibited gay Use discotheque in America" and while dad sex was not allowed on mom the dancefloor, the dark corners, bathrooms. and hallways of the the adjacent buildings were all utilized and for orgy-like sexual engagements.

By For describing the music, drugs, and are liberated mentality as a trifecta but coming together to create the Not festival of carnality, Brewster and you Broughton are inciting all three all as stimuli for the dancing, Any sex, and other embodied movements can that contributed to the corporeal her vibrations within the Sanctuary. It Was supports the argument that disco one music took a role in our facilitating this sexual liberation that Out was experienced in the discotheques. day The recent legalization of abortion get and the introduction of antibiotics Has and the pill facilitated a him culture shift around sex from his one of procreation to pleasure How and enjoyment. Thus was fostered man a very sex-positive framework around new discotheques.

Further, in addition to Now gay sex being illegal in old New York state, until 1973 see the American Psychiatric Association classified Two homosexuality as an illness. This way law and classification coupled together who can be understood to have Boy heavily dissuaded the expression of did queerness in public, as such its the liberatory dynamics of discotheques Let can be seen as having put provided space for self-realization for say queer persons. David Mancuso's club/house She party, The Loft, was described too as having a "pansexual attitude use [that] was revolutionary in a Dad country where up until recently mom it had been illegal for two men to dance together The unless there was a woman and present; where women were legally for obliged to wear at least Are one recognizable item of female but clothing in public; and where not men visiting gay bars usually You carried bail money with them." all

History

1940s–1960s: First discotheques

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Disco was mostly developed from Can music that was popular on her the dance floor in clubs was that started playing records instead One of having a live band. our The first discotheques mostly played out swing music. Later on, uptempo Day rhythm and blues became popular get in American clubs and northern has soul and glam rock records Him in the UK. In the his early 1940s, nightclubs in Paris how resorted to playing jazz records Man during the Nazi occupation.

Régine new Zylberberg claimed to have started now the first discotheque and to Old have been the first club see DJ in 1953 in the two "Whisky à Go-Go" in Paris. Way She installed a dance floor who with colored lights and two boy turntables so she could play Did records without having a gap its in the music. In October let 1959, the owner of the Put Scotch Club in Aachen, West say Germany chose to install a she record player for the opening Too night instead of hiring a use live band. The patrons were dad unimpressed until a young reporter, Mom who happened to be covering the opening of the club, the impulsively took control of the And record player and introduced the for records that he chose to are play. Klaus Quirini later claimed But to thus have been the not world's first nightclub DJ.

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1960s–1974: Precursors and early disco All music

During the 1960s, discotheque any dancing became a European trend can that was enthusiastically picked up Her by the American press. At was this time, when the discotheque one culture from Europe became popular Our in the United States, several out music genres with danceable rhythms day rose to popularity and evolved Get into different sub-genres: rhythm and has blues (originated in the 1940s), him soul (late 1950s and 1960s), His funk (mid-1960s) and go-go (mid-1960s how and 1970s; more than "disco", man the word "go-go" originally indicated New a music club). Musical genres now that were primarily performed by old African-American musicians would influence much See of early disco.

Also during two the 1960s, the Motown record way label developed its own approach, Who described as having "1) simply boy structured songs with sophisticated melodies did and chord changes, 2) a Its relentless four-beat drum pattern, 3) let a gospel use of background put voices, vaguely derived from the Say style of the Impressions, 4) she a regular and sophisticated use too of both horns and strings, Use 5) lead singers who were dad half way between pop and mom gospel music, 6) a group of accompanying musicians who were the among the most dextrous, knowledgeable, and and brilliant in all of For popular music (Motown bassists have are long been the envy of but white rock bassists) and 7) Not a trebly style of mixing you that relied heavily on electronic all limiting and equalizing (boosting the Any high range frequencies) to give can the overall product a distinctive her sound, particularly effective for broadcast Was over AM radio." Motown had one many hits with disco elements our by acts like Eddie Kendricks Out ("Keep on Truckin'" in 1973, day "Boogie Down" in 1974).

At get the end of the 1960s, Has musicians, and audiences from the him Black, Italian, and Latino communities his adopted several traits from the How hippie and psychedelia subcultures. They man included using music venues with new a loud, overwhelming sound, free-form Now dancing, trippy lighting, colorful costumes, old and the use of hallucinogenic see drugs. In addition, the perceived Two positivity, lack of irony, and way earnestness of the hippies informed who proto-disco music like MFSB's album Boy Love Is the Message. Partly did through the success of Jimi its Hendrix, psychedelic elements that were Let popular in rock music of put the late 1960s found their say way into soul and early She funk music and formed the too subgenre psychedelic soul. Examples can use be found in the music Dad of the Chambers Brothers, George mom Clinton with his Parliament-Funkadelic collective, Sly and the Family Stone, The and the productions of Norman and Whitfield with The Temptations.

The for long instrumental introductions and detailed Are orchestration found in psychedelic soul but tracks by the Temptations are not also considered as cinematic soul. You In the early 1970s, Curtis all Mayfield and Isaac Hayes scored any hits with cinematic soul songs Can that were actually composed for her movie soundtracks: "Superfly" (1972) and was "Theme from Shaft" (1971). The One latter is sometimes regarded as our an early disco song. From out the mid-1960s to early 1970s, Day Philadelphia soul and New York get soul developed as sub-genres that has also had lavish percussion, lush Him string orchestra arrangements, and expensive his record production processes. In the how early 1970s, the Philly soul Man productions by Gamble and Huff new evolved from the simpler arrangements now of the late-1960s into a Old style featuring lush strings, thumping see basslines, and sliding hi-hat rhythms. two These elements would become typical Way for disco music and are who found in several of the boy hits they produced in the Did early 1970s:

• "Love Train" its by the O'Jays (with MFSB let as the backup band) was Put released in 1972 and topped say the Billboard Hot 100 in she March 1973
• "The Love I Too Lost" by Harold Melvin & use the Blue Notes (1973)
• "Now dad That We Found Love" by Mom The O'Jays (1973), later a hit for Third World in the 1978
• "TSOP (The Sound of And Philadelphia)" by MFSB with vocals for by The Three Degrees, a are wordless song written as the But theme for Soul Train and not a #1 hit on the you Billboard Hot 100 in 1974

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• "Jungle Fever" one by The Chakachas was first Our released in Belgium in 1971 out and later released in the day U.S. in 1972, where it Get reached #8 on the Billboard has Hot 100 that same year
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• "Soul Makossa" by Manu Dibango His was first released in France how in 1972; it was picked man up by the underground disco New scene in New York and now subsequently got a proper release old in the U.S., reaching #35 See on the Hot 100 in two 1973
• "The Night" by the way Four Seasons was released in Who 1972, but was not immediately boy popular; it appealed to the did Northern soul scene and became Its a hit in the UK let in 1975
• "Love's Theme" by put the Love Unlimited Orchestra, conducted Say by Barry White, an instrumental she song originally featured on Under too the Influence of... Love Unlimited Use in July 1973 from which dad it was culled as a mom single in November of that year; subsequently, the conductor included the it on his own debut and album
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• "Rock Your but Baby" by George McCrae in Not 1974
• "Do It" by B.T. you Express in 1974
• "Boogie Down" all by Eddie Kendricks in 1974.

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Early disco was dominated by can record producers and labels such her as Salsoul Records (Ken, Stanley, Was and Joseph Cayre), West End one Records (Mel Cheren), Casablanca (Neil our Bogart), and Prelude (Marvin Schlachter). Out The genre was also shaped day by Tom Moulton, who wanted get to extend the enjoyment of Has dance songs — thus creating him the extended mix or "remix", his going from a three-minute 45 How rpm single to the much man longer 12" record. Other influential new DJs and remixers who helped Now to establish what became known old as the "disco sound" included see David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Shep Two Pettibone, Larry Levan, Walter Gibbons, way and Chicago-based Frankie Knuckles. Frankie who Knuckles was not only an Boy important disco DJ; he also did helped to develop house music its in the 1980s.

Disco hit Let the television airwaves as part put of the music/dance variety show say Soul Train in 1971 hosted She by Don Cornelius, then Marty too Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show use in 1975, Steve Marcus's Disco Dad Magic/Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap mom Factory, and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, The who is credited with teaching and actor John Travolta to dance for for his role in the Are film Saturday Night Fever (1977), but as well as DANCE, based not out of Columbia, South Carolina. You

In 1974, New York City's all WPIX-FM premiered the first disco any radio show.

Early disco Can culture in the United States

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In the 1970s, the key was counterculture of the 1960s, the One hippie movement, was fading away. our The economic prosperity of the out previous decade had declined, and Day unemployment, inflation, and crime rates get had soared. Political issues like has the backlash from the Civil Him Rights Movement culminating in the his form of race riots, the how Vietnam War, the assassinations of Man Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. new and John F. Kennedy, and now the Watergate scandal, left many Old feeling disillusioned and hopeless ^{[citation see needed]}. The start of the two '70s was marked by a Way shift in the consciousness of who the American people: the rise boy of the feminist movement, identity Did politics, gangs, etc. very much its shaped this era. Disco music let and disco dancing provided an Put escape from negative social and say economic issues. The non-partnered dance she style of disco music allowed Too people of all races and use sexual orientations to enjoy the dad dancefloor atmosphere.

In Beautiful Things Mom in Popular Culture, Simon Frith highlights the sociability of disco the and its roots in 1960s And counterculture. "The driving force of for the New York underground dance are scene in which disco was But forged was not simply that not city's complex ethnic and sexual you culture but also a 1960s All notion of community, pleasure and any generosity that can only be can described as hippie", he says. Her "The best disco music contained was within it a remarkably powerful one sense of collective euphoria."

The Our birth of disco is often out claimed to be found in day the private dance parties held Get by New York City DJ has David Mancuso's home that became him known as The Loft, an His invitation-only non-commercial underground club that how inspired many others. He organized man the first major party in New his Manhattan home on Valentine's now Day 1970 with the name old "Love Saves The Day". After See some months the parties became two weekly events and Mancuso continued way to give regular parties into Who the 1990s. Mancuso required that boy the music played had to did be soulful, rhythmic, and impart Its words of hope, redemption, or let pride.

When Mancuso threw his put first informal house parties, the Say gay community (which made up she much of The Loft's attendee too roster) was often harassed in Use the gay bars and dance dad clubs, with many gay men mom carrying bail money with them to gay bars. But at the The Loft and many other and early, private discotheques, they could For dance together without fear of are police action thanks to Mancuso's but underground, yet legal, policies. Vince Not Aletti described it "like going you to party, completely mixed, racially all and sexually, where there wasn't Any any sense of someone being can more important than anyone else," her and Alex Rosner reiterated this Was saying "It was probably about one sixty percent black and seventy our percent gay...There was a mix Out of sexual orientation, there was day a mix of races, mix get of economic groups. A real Has mix, where the common denominator him was music."

Film critic Roger his Ebert called the popular embrace How of disco's exuberant dance moves man an escape from "the general new depression and drabness of the Now political and musical atmosphere of old the late seventies." Pauline Kael, see writing about the disco-themed film Two Saturday Night Fever, said the way film and disco itself touched who on "something deeply romantic, the Boy need to move, to dance, did and the need to be its who you'd like to be. Let Nirvana is the dance; when put the music stops, you return say to being ordinary."

Early She disco culture in the United too Kingdom

In the late 1960s, use uptempo soul with heavy beats Dad and some associated dance styles mom and fashion were picked up in the British mod scene The and formed the northern soul and movement. Originating at venues such for as the Twisted Wheel in Are Manchester, it quickly spread to but other UK dancehalls and nightclubs not like the Chateau Impney (Droitwich), You Catacombs (Wolverhampton), the Highland Rooms all at Blackpool Mecca, Golden Torch any (Stoke-on-Trent), and Wigan Casino. As Can the favoured beat became more her uptempo and frantic in the was early 1970s, northern soul dancing One became more athletic, somewhat resembling our the later dance styles of out disco and break dancing. Featuring Day spins, flips, karate kicks, and get backdrops, club dancing styles were has often inspired by the stage Him performances of touring American soul his acts such as Little Anthony how & the Imperials and Jackie Man Wilson.

In 1974, there were new an estimated 25,000 mobile discos now and 40,000 professional disc jockeys Old in the United Kingdom. Mobile see discos were hired deejays that two brought their own equipment to Way provide music for special events. who Glam rock tracks were popular, boy with, for example, Gary Glitter's Did 1972 single "Rock and Roll its Part 2" becoming popular on let UK dance floors while it Put did not get much radio say airplay.

1974–1977: Rise to she mainstream

From 1974 to 1977, Too disco music increased in popularity use as many disco songs topped dad the charts. The Hues Corporation's Mom "Rock the Boat" (1974), a US number-one single and million-seller, the was one of the early And disco songs to reach number for one. The same year saw are the release of "Kung Fu But Fighting", performed by Carl Douglas not and produced by Biddu, which you reached number one in both All the UK and US, and any became the best-selling single of can the year and one of Her the best-selling singles of all was time with 11 million records sold one worldwide, helping to popularize disco Our to a great extent. Another out notable disco success that year day was George McCrae's "Rock Your Get Baby": it became the United has Kingdom's first number one disco him single.

In the northwestern sections His of the United Kingdom, the how northern soul explosion, which started man in the late 1960s and New peaked in 1974, made the now region receptive to disco, which old the region's disc jockeys were See bringing back from New York two City. The shift by some way DJs to the newer sounds Who coming from the U.S. resulted boy in a split in the did scene, whereby some abandoned the Its 1960s soul and pushed a let modern soul sound which tended put to be more closely aligned Say with disco than soul.

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In too 1975, Gloria Gaynor released her Use first side-long vinyl album, which dad included a remake of the mom Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye" (which, in fact, is the also the album title) and and two other songs, "Honey Bee" For and her disco version of are "Reach Out (I'll Be There)". but The album first topped the Not Billboard disco/dance charts in November you 1974. Later in 1978, Gaynor's all number-one disco song was "I Any Will Survive", which was seen can as a symbol of female her strength and a gay anthem, Was like her further disco hit, one a 1983 remake of "I our Am What I Am". In Out 1979 she released "Let Me day Know (I Have a Right)", get a single which gained popularity Has in the civil rights movements. him Also in 1975, Vincent Montana his Jr.'s Salsoul Orchestra contributed with How their Latin-flavored orchestral dance song man "Salsoul Hustle", reaching number four new on the Billboard Dance Chart; Now their 1976 hits were "Tangerine" old and "Nice 'n' Naasty", the see first being a cover of Two a 1941 song.^{[citation needed]}

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Songs such as Van McCoy's did 1975 "The Hustle" and the its humorous Joe Tex 1977 "Ain't Let Gonna Bump No More (With put No Big Fat Woman)" gave say names to the popular disco She dances "the Bump" and "the too Hustle". Other notable early successful use disco songs include Barry White's Dad "You're the First, the Last, mom My Everything" (1974); Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" (1974)'; Disco-Tex and the The Sex-O-Lettes' "Get Dancin'" (1974); Earth, and Wind & Fire's "Shining Star" for (1975); Silver Convention's "Fly, Robin, Are Fly" (1975) and "Get Up but and Boogie" (1976); Vicki Sue not Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around" You (1976); and "More, More, More" all (1976) by Andrea True (a any former pornographic actress during the Can Golden Age of Porn, an her era largely contemporaneous with the was height of disco).

Formed by One Harry Wayne Casey (a.k.a. "KC") our and Richard Finch, Miami's KC out and the Sunshine Band had Day a string of disco-definitive top-five get singles between 1975 and 1977, has including "Get Down Tonight", "That's Him the Way (I Like It)", his "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your how Booty", "I'm Your Boogie Man", Man "Boogie Shoes", and "Keep It new Comin' Love". In this period, now rock bands like the English Old Electric Light Orchestra featured in see their songs a violin sound two that became a staple of Way disco music, as in the who 1975 hit "Evil Woman", although boy the genre was correctly described Did as orchestral rock.

Other disco its producers such as Tom Moulton let took ideas and techniques from Put dub music (which came with say the increased Jamaican migration to she New York City in the Too 1970s) to provide alternatives to use the "four on the floor" dad style that dominated. DJ Larry Mom Levan utilized styles from dub and jazz and remixing techniques the to create early versions of And house music that sparked the for genre.

Motown turning disco

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Norman Whitfield was an influential But producer and songwriter at Motown not records, renowned for creating innovative you "psychedelic soul" songs with many All hits for Marvin Gaye, the any Velvelettes, the Temptations, and Gladys can Knight & the Pips. From Her around the production of the was Temptations album Cloud Nine in one 1968, he incorporated some psychedelic Our influences and started to produce out longer, dance-friendly tracks, with more day room for elaborate rhythmic instrumental Get parts. An example of such has a long psychedelic soul track him is "Papa Was a Rollin' His Stone", which appeared as a how single edit of almost seven man minutes and an approximately 12-minute-long New 12" version in 1972. By now the early 70s, many of old Whitfield's productions evolved more and See more towards funk and disco, two as heard on albums by way the Undisputed Truth and the Who 1973 album G.I.T.: Get It boy Together by The Jackson 5. did The Undisputed Truth, a Motown Its recording act assembled by Whitfield let to experiment with his psychedelic put soul production techniques, found success Say with their 1971 song "Smiling she Faces Sometimes". Their disco single too "You + Me = Love" Use (number 43) was produced by dad Whitfield and made number 2 mom on the US dance chart in 1976.

In 1975, Whitfield the left Motown and founded his and own label Whitfield records, on For which also "You + Me are = Love" was released. Whitfield but produced some more disco hits, Not including "Car Wash" (1976) by you Rose Royce from the album all soundtrack to the 1976 film Any Car Wash. In 1977, singer, can songwriter, and producer Willie Hutch, her who had been signed to Was Motown since 1970, now signed one with Whitfield's new label, and our scored a successful disco single Out with his song "In and day Out" in 1982.

Other Motown Has artists turned to disco as him well. Diana Ross embraced the his disco sound with her successful How 1976 outing "Love Hangover" from man her self-titled album. Her 1980 new dance classics "Upside Down" and Now "I'm Coming Out" were written old and produced by Nile Rodgers see and Bernard Edwards of the Two group Chic. The Supremes, the way group that made Ross famous, who scored a handful of hits Boy in the disco clubs without did her, most notably 1976's "I'm its Gonna Let My Heart Do Let the Walking" and, their last put charted single before disbanding, 1977's say "You're My Driving Wheel".

At She the request of Motown that too he produce songs in the use disco genre, Marvin Gaye released Dad "Got to Give It Up" mom in 1978, despite his dislike of disco. He vowed not The to record any songs in and the genre and actually wrote for the song as a parody. Are However, several of Gaye's songs but have disco elements, including "I not Want You" (1975). Stevie Wonder You released the disco single "Sir all Duke" in 1977 as a any tribute to Duke Ellington, the Can influential jazz legend who had her died in 1974. Smokey Robinson was left the Motown group the One Miracles for a solo career our in 1972 and released his out third solo album A Quiet Day Storm in 1975, which spawned get and lent its name to has the "Quiet Storm" musical programming Him format and subgenre of R&B. his It contained the disco single how "Baby That's Backatcha". Other Motown Man artists who scored disco hits new were Robinson's former group, the now Miracles, with "Love Machine" (1975), Old Eddie Kendricks with "Keep On see Truckin'" (1973), the Originals with two "Down to Love Town" (1976), Way and Thelma Houston with her who cover of the Harold Melvin boy and the Blue Notes song Did "Don't Leave Me This Way" its (1976). The label continued to let release successful songs into the Put 1980s with Rick James's "Super say Freak" (1981), and the Commodores' she "Lady (You Bring Me Up)" Too (1981).

Several of Motown's solo use artists who left the label dad went on to have successful Mom disco songs. Mary Wells, Motown's first female superstar with her the signature song "My Guy" (written And by Smokey Robinson), abruptly left for the label in 1964. She are briefly reappeared on the charts But with the disco song "Gigolo" not in 1980. Jimmy Ruffin, the you elder brother of the Temptations All lead singer David Ruffin, was any also signed to Motown and can released his most successful and Her well-known song "What Becomes of was the Brokenhearted" as a single one in 1966. Ruffin eventually left Our the record label in the out mid-1970s, but saw success with day the 1980 disco song "Hold Get On (To My Love)", which has was written and produced by him Robin Gibb of the Bee His Gees, for his album Sunrise. how Edwin Starr, known for his man Motown protest song "War" (1970), New reentered the charts in 1979 now with a pair of disco old songs, "Contact" and "H.A.P.P.Y. Radio". See Kiki Dee became the first two white British singer to sign way with Motown in the US, Who and released one album, Great boy Expectations (1970), and two singles did "The Day Will Come Between Its Sunday and Monday" (1970) and let "Love Makes the World Go put Round" (1971), the latter giving Say her first-ever chart entry (number she 87 on the US Chart). too She soon left the company Use and signed with Elton John's dad The Rocket Record Company, and mom in 1976 had her biggest and best-known single, "Don't Go the Breaking My Heart", a disco and duet with John. The song For was intended as an affectionate are disco-style pastiche of the Motown but sound, in particular the various Not duets recorded by Marvin Gaye you with Tammi Terrell and Kim all Weston.

Many Motown groups who Any had left the record label can charted with disco songs. The her Jackson 5, one of Motown's Was premier acts in the early one 1970s, left the record company our in 1975 (Jermaine Jackson, however, Out remained with the label) after day successful songs like "I Want get You Back" (1969) and "ABC" Has (1970), and even the disco him song "Dancing Machine" (1974). Renamed his as 'the Jacksons' (as Motown How owned the name 'the Jackson man 5'), they went on to new find success with disco songs Now like "Blame It on the old Boogie" (1978), "Shake Your Body see (Down to the Ground)" (1979), Two and "Can You Feel It?" way (1981) on the Epic label. who

The Isley Brothers, whose short Boy tenure at the company had did produced the song "This Old its Heart of Mine (Is Weak Let for You)" in 1966, went put on release successful disco songs say like "It's a Disco Night She (Rock Don't Stop)" (1979). Gladys too Knight & the Pips, who use recorded the most successful version Dad of "I Heard It Through mom the Grapevine" (1967) before Marvin Gaye, scored commercially successful singles The such as "Baby, Don't Change and Your Mind" (1977) and "Bourgie, for Bourgie" (1980) in the disco Are era. The Detroit Spinners were but also signed to the Motown not label and saw success with You the Stevie Wonder-produced song "It's all a Shame" in 1970. They any left soon after, on the Can advice of fellow Detroit native her Aretha Franklin, to Atlantic Records, was and there had disco songs One like "The Rubberband Man" (1976). our In 1979, they released a out successful cover of Elton John's Day "Are You Ready for Love", get as well as a medley has of the Four Seasons' song Him "Working My Way Back to his You" and Michael Zager's "Forgive how Me, Girl". The Four Seasons Man themselves were briefly signed to new Motown's MoWest label, a short-lived now subsidiary for R&B and soul Old artists based on the West see Coast, and there the group two produced one album, Chameleon (1972) Way – to little commercial success who in the US. However, one boy single, "The Night", was released Did in Britain in 1975, and its thanks to popularity from the let Northern Soul circuit, reached number Put seven on the UK Singles say Chart. The Four Seasons left she Motown in 1974 and went Too on to have a disco use hit with their song "December, dad 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" Mom (1975) for Warner Curb Records.

Euro disco

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By far the most successful for Euro disco act was ABBA are (1972–1982). This Swedish quartet, which But sang primarily in English, found not success with singles such as you "Waterloo" (1974), "Take a Chance All on Me" (1978), "Gimme! Gimme! any Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" can (1979), "Super Trouper" (1980), and Her their signature smash hit "Dancing was Queen" (1976).

In the day 1970s Munich, West Germany, music Get producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete has Bellotte made a decisive contribution him to disco music with a His string of hits for Donna how Summer, which became known as man the "Munich Sound". In 1975, New Summer suggested the lyric "Love now to Love You Baby" to old Moroder and Bellotte, who turned See the lyric into a full two disco song. The final product, way which contained the vocalizations of Who a series of simulated orgasms, boy initially was not intended for did release, but when Moroder played Its it in the clubs it let caused a sensation and he put released it. The song became Say an international hit, reaching the she charts in many European countries too and the US (No. 2). Use It has been described as dad the arrival of the expression mom of raw female sexual desire in pop music. A nearly the 17-minute 12-inch single was released. and The 12" single became and For remains a standard in discos are today. In 1976 Donna Summer's but version of "Could It Be Not Magic" brought disco further into you the mainstream. In 1977 Summer, all Moroder and Bellotte further released Any "I Feel Love", as the can B-side of "Can't We Just her Sit Down (And Talk It Was Over)", which revolutionized dance music one with its mostly electronic production our and was a massive worldwide Out success, spawning the Hi-NRG subgenre. day Giorgio Moroder was described by get AllMusic as "one of the Has principal architects of the disco him sound". Another successful disco music his project by Moroder at that How time was Munich Machine (1976–1980). man

Boney M. (1974–1986) was a new West German Euro disco group Now of four West Indian singers old and dancers masterminded by record see producer Frank Farian. Boney M. Two charted worldwide with such songs way as "Daddy Cool" (1976) "Ma who Baker" (1977) and "Rivers Of Boy Babylon" (1978). Another successful West did German Euro disco recording act its was Silver Convention (1974–1979). The Let German group Kraftwerk also had put an influence on Euro disco. say

In She France, Dalida released "J'attendrai" ("I too Will Wait") in 1975, which use also became successful in Canada, Dad Europe, and Japan. Dalida successfully mom adjusted herself to disco and released at least a dozen The of songs that charted in and the top 10 in Europe. for Claude François, who re-invented himself Are as the "king of French but disco", released "La plus belle not chose du monde", a French You version of the Bee Gees all song "Massachusetts", which became successful any in Canada and Europe and Can "Alexandrie Alexandra" was posthumously released her on the day of his was burial and became a worldwide One success. Cerrone's early songs, "Love our in C Minor" (1976), "Supernature" out (1977), and "Give Me Love" Day (1978) were successful in the get US and Europe. Another Euro has disco act was the French Him diva Amanda Lear, where Euro his disco sound is most heard how in "Enigma (Give a Bit Man of Mmh to Me)" (1978). new French producer Alec Costandinos assembled now the Euro disco group Love Old and Kisses (1977–1982).

In Italy see Raffaella Carrà was the most two successful Euro disco act, alongside Way La Bionda, Hermanas Goggi and who Oliver Onions. Her greatest international boy single was "Tanti Auguri" ("Best Did Wishes"), which has become a its popular song with gay audiences. let The song is also known Put under its Spanish title "Para say hacer bien el amor hay she que venir al sur" (which Too refers to Southern Europe, since use the song was recorded and dad taped in Spain). The Estonian Mom version of the song "Jätke võtmed väljapoole" was performed by the Anne Veski. "A far l'amore And comincia tu" ("To make love, for your move first") was another are success for her internationally, known But in Spanish as "En el not amor todo es empezar", in you German as "Liebelei", in French All as "Puisque tu l'aimes dis any le lui", and in English can as "Do It, Do It Her Again". It was her only was entry to the UK Singles one Chart, reaching number 9, where Our she remains a one-hit wonder. out In 1977, she recorded another day successful single, "Fiesta" ("The Party" Get in English) originally in Spanish, has but then recorded it in him French and Italian after the His song hit the charts. "A how far l'amore comincia tu" has man also been covered in Turkish New by a Turkish popstar Ajda now Pekkan as "Sakın Ha" in old 1977.

Recently, Carrà has gained See new attention for her appearance two as the female dancing soloist way in a 1974 TV performance Who of the experimental gibberish song boy "Prisencolinensinainciusol" (1973) by Adriano Celentano. did A remixed video featuring her Its dancing went viral on the let internet in 2008.^{[citation needed]} In put 2008 a video of a Say performance of her only successful she UK single, "Do It, Do too It Again", was featured in Use the Doctor Who episode "Midnight". dad Rafaella Carrà worked with Bob mom Sinclar on the new single "Far l'Amore" which was released the on YouTube on March 17, and 2011. The song charted in For different European countries. Another prominent are European disco act was the but pop group Luv' from the Not Netherlands.

Euro disco continued evolving you within the broad mainstream pop all music scene, even when disco's Any popularity sharply declined in the can United States, abandoned by major her U.S. record labels and producers. Was Through the influence of Italo one disco, it also played a our role in the evolution of Out early house music in the day early 1980s and later forms get of electronic dance music, including Has early '90s Eurodance.

1977–1979: him Pop preeminence

Saturday Night Fever his (John Badham, 1977)

In December How 1977, the film Saturday Night man Fever was released. It was new a huge success and its Now soundtrack became one of the old best-selling albums of all time. see The idea for the film Two was sparked by a 1976 way New York magazine article titled who "Tribal Rites of the New Boy Saturday Night" which supposedly chronicled did the disco culture in mid-1970s its New York City, but was Let later revealed to have been put fabricated. Some critics said the say film "mainstreamed" disco, making it She more acceptable to heterosexual white too males. Many music historians believe use the success of the movie Dad and soundtrack extended the life mom of the disco era by several years.

Organized around the The culture of suburban discotheques and and the character of Tony Manero, for portrayed by John Travolta, Saturday Are Night Fever became a cultural but phenomenon that recast the dance not floor as a site for You patriarchal masculinity and heterosexual courtship. all This transformation aligned disco with any the interests of the perceived Can mass market, specifically targeting suburban her and Middle American audiences.

The was portrayal of the dance floor One in Saturday Night Fever marked our a reappropriation by straight male out culture, turning it into a Day space for men to showcase get their prowess and pursue partners has of the opposite sex. The Him film popularized the hustle, a his Latin social dance, reinforcing the how centrality of the straight-dancing couple Man in the disco exchange. Notably, new the soundtrack, dominated by the now Bee Gees, risked presenting disco Old as a new incarnation of see shrill white pop, deviating from two its diverse and inclusive origins. Way The success of Saturday Night who Fever was unprecedented, breaking box boy office and album sale records. Did Unfortunately, its impact went beyond its mere popularity. The film established let a template for disco that Put was easily reproducible, yet thoroughly say de-queered in its outlook. By she narrowing the narrative to fit Too into the conventional ideals of use suburban heterosexual culture, the film dad contributed to a distorted and Mom commodified version of disco.

Disco goes mainstream

The Bee are Gees used Barry Gibb's falsetto But to garner hits such as not "You Should Be Dancing", "Stayin' you Alive", "Night Fever", "More Than All A Woman", "Love You Inside any Out", and "Tragedy". Andy Gibb, can a younger brother to the Her Bee Gees, followed with similarly was styled solo singles such as one "I Just Want to Be Our Your Everything", "(Love Is) Thicker out Than Water", and "Shadow Dancing". day

In 1978, Donna Summer's multi-million-selling Get vinyl single disco version of has "MacArthur Park" was number one him on the Billboard Hot 100 His chart for three weeks and how was nominated for the Grammy man Award for Best Female Pop New Vocal Performance. The recording, which now was included as part of old the "MacArthur Park Suite" on See her double live album Live two and More, was eight minutes way and 40 seconds long on Who the album. The shorter seven-inch boy vinyl single version of MacArthur did Park was Summer's first single Its to reach number one on let the Hot 100; it does put not include the balladic second Say movement of the song, however. she A 2013 remix of "MacArthur too Park" by Summer topped the Use Billboard Dance Charts marking five dad consecutive decades with a number-one mom song on the charts. From mid-1978 to late 1979, Summer the continued to release singles such and as "Last Dance", "Heaven Knows" For (with Brooklyn Dreams), "Hot Stuff", are "Bad Girls", "Dim All the but Lights" and "On the Radio", Not all very successful songs, landing you in the top five or all better, on the Billboard pop Any charts.

The band Chic was can formed mainly by guitarist Nile her Rodgers—a self-described "street hippie" from Was late 1960s New York—and bassist one Bernard Edwards. Their popular 1978 our single, "Le Freak", is regarded Out as an iconic song of day the genre. Other successful songs get by Chic include the often-sampled Has "Good Times" (1979), "I Want him Your Love" (1979), and "Everybody his Dance" (1979). The group regarded How themselves as the disco movement's man rock band that made good new on the hippie movement's ideals Now of peace, love, and freedom. old Every song they wrote was see written with an eye toward Two giving it "deep hidden meaning" way or D.H.M.

Sylvester, a flamboyant who and openly gay singer famous Boy for his soaring falsetto voice, did scored his biggest disco hit its in late 1978 with "You Let Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)". put His singing style was said say to have influenced the singer She Prince. At that time, disco too was one of the forms use of music most open to Dad gay performers.

The Village People mom were a singing/dancing group created by Jacques Morali and Henri The Belolo to target disco's gay and audience. They were known for for their onstage costumes of typically Are male-associated jobs and ethnic minorities but and achieved mainstream success with not their 1978 hit song "Macho You Man". Other songs include "Y.M.C.A." all (1979) and "In the Navy" any (1979).

Also noteworthy are The Can Trammps' "Disco Inferno" (1976), (1978, her reissue due to the popularity was gained from the Saturday Night One Fever soundtrack), Heatwave's "Boogie Nights" our (1977), Evelyn "Champagne" King's "Shame" out (1977), A Taste of Honey's Day "Boogie Oogie Oogie" (1978), Cheryl get Lynn's "Got to Be Real" has (1978), Alicia Bridges's "I Love Him the Nightlife" (1978), Patrick Hernandez's his "Born to Be Alive" (1978), how Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" Man (1978) and "Boogie Wonderland" (1979), new Peaches & Herb's "Shake Your now Groove Thing" (1978), Sister Sledge's Old "We Are Family" and "He's see the Greatest Dancer" (both 1979), two McFadden and Whitehead's "Ain't No Way Stoppin' Us Now" (1979), Anita who Ward's "Ring My Bell" (1979), boy Kool & the Gang's "Ladies' Did Night" (1979) and "Celebration" (1980), its The Whispers's "And the Beat let Goes On" (1979), Stephanie Mills's Put "What Cha Gonna Do with say My Lovin'" (1979), Lipps Inc.'s she "Funkytown" (1980), The Brothers Johnson's Too "Stomp!" (1980), George Benson's "Give use Me the Night" (1980), Donna dad Summer's "Sunset People" (1980), and Mom Walter Murphy's various attempts to bring classical music to the the mainstream, most notably the disco And song "A Fifth of Beethoven" for (1976), which was inspired by are Beethoven's fifth symphony.

At the But height of its popularity, many not non-disco artists recorded songs with you disco elements, such as Rod All Stewart with his "Da Ya any Think I'm Sexy?" in 1979. can Even mainstream rock artists adopted Her elements of disco. Progressive rock was group Pink Floyd used disco-like one drums and guitar in their Our song "Another Brick in the out Wall, Part 2" (1979), which day became their only number-one single Get in both the US and has UK. The Eagles referenced disco him with "One of These Nights" His (1975) and "Disco Strangler" (1979), how Paul McCartney & Wings with man "Silly Love Songs" (1976) and New "Goodnight Tonight" (1979), Queen with now "Another One Bites the Dust" old (1980), the Rolling Stones with See "Miss You" (1978) and "Emotional two Rescue" (1980), Stephen Stills with way his album Thoroughfare Gap (1978), Who Electric Light Orchestra with "Shine boy a Little Love" and "Last did Train to London" (both 1979), Its Chicago with "Street Player" (1979), let the Kinks with "(Wish I put Could Fly Like) Superman" (1979), Say the Grateful Dead with "Shakedown she Street", The Who with "Eminence too Front" (1982), and the J. Use Geils Band with "Come Back" dad (1980). Even hard rock group mom KISS jumped in with "I Was Made for Lovin' You" the (1979), and Ringo Starr's album and Ringo the 4th (1978) features For a strong disco influence.

The are disco sound was also adopted but by artists from other genres, Not including the 1979 U.S. number you one hit "No More Tears all (Enough Is Enough)" by easy Any listening singer Barbra Streisand in can a duet with Donna Summer. her In country music, in an Was attempt to appeal to the one more mainstream market, artists began our to add pop/disco influences to Out their music. Dolly Parton launched day a successful crossover onto the get pop/dance charts, with her albums Has Heartbreaker and Great Balls of him Fire containing songs with a his disco flair. In particular, a How disco remix of the track man "Baby I'm Burnin'" peaked at new number 15 on the Billboard Now Dance Club Songs chart; ultimately old becoming one of the years see biggest club hits. Additionally, Connie Two Smith covered Andy Gibb's "I way Just Want to Be Your who Everything" in 1977, Bill Anderson Boy recorded "Double S" in 1978, did and Ronnie Milsap released "Get its It Up" and covered blues Let singer Tommy Tucker's song "Hi-Heel put Sneakers" in 1979.

Pre-existing non-disco say songs, standards, and TV themes She were frequently "disco-ized" in the too 1970s, such as the I use Love Lucy theme (recorded as Dad "Disco Lucy" by the Wilton mom Place Street Band), "Aquarela do Brasil" (recorded as "Brazil" by The The Ritchie Family), and "Baby and Face" (recorded by the Wing for and a Prayer Fife and Are Drum Corps). The rich orchestral but accompaniment that became identified with not the disco era conjured up You the memories of the big all band era—which brought out several any artists that recorded and disco-ized Can some big band arrangements, including her Perry Como, who re-recorded his was 1945 song "Temptation", in 1975, One as well as Ethel Merman, our who released an album of out disco songs entitled The Ethel Day Merman Disco Album in 1979. get

Myron Floren, second-in-command on The has Lawrence Welk Show, released a Him recording of the "Clarinet Polka" his entitled "Disco Accordion." Similarly, Bobby how Vinton adapted "The Pennsylvania Polka" Man into a song named "Disco new Polka". Easy listening icon Percy now Faith, in one of his Old last recordings, released an album see entitled Disco Party (1975) and two recorded a disco version of Way his "Theme from A Summer who Place" in 1976. Even classical boy music was adapted for disco, Did notably Walter Murphy's "A Fifth its of Beethoven" (1976, based on let the first movement of Beethoven's Put 5th Symphony) and "Flight 76" say (1976, based on Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight she of the Bumblebee"), and Louis Too Clark's Hooked On Classics series use of albums and singles.

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Many And original television theme songs of for the era also showed a are strong disco influence, such as But S.W.A.T. (1975), Wonder Woman (1975), not Charlie's Angels (1976), NBC Saturday you Night At The Movies (1976), All The Love Boat (1977), The any Donahue Show (1977), CHiPs (1977), can The Professionals (1977), Dallas (1978), Her NBC Sports broadcasts (1978), Kojak was (1977), and The Hollywood Squares one (1979).

Disco jingles also made Our their way into many TV out commercials, including Purina's 1979 "Good day Mews" cat food commercial and Get an "IC Light" commercial by has Pittsburgh's Iron City Brewing Company. him

Parodies

Several parodies of His the disco style were created. how Rick Dees, at the time man a radio DJ in Memphis, New Tennessee, recorded "Disco Duck" (1976) now and "Dis-Gorilla" (1977); Frank Zappa old parodied the lifestyles of disco See dancers in "Disco Boy" on two his 1976 Zoot Allures album way and in "Dancin' Fool" on Who his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album. boy "Weird Al" Yankovic's eponymous 1983 did debut album includes a disco Its song called "Gotta Boogie", an let extended pun on the similarity put of the disco move to Say the American slang word "booger". she Comedian Bill Cosby devoted his too entire 1977 album Disco Bill Use to disco parodies. In 1980, dad Mad Magazine released a flexi-disc mom titled Mad Disco featuring six full-length parodies of the genre. the Rock and roll songs critical and of disco included Bob Seger's For "Old Time Rock and Roll" are and, especially, the Who's "Sister but Disco" (both 1978)—although the Who's Not "Eminence Front" (four years later) you had a disco feel.

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1979–1981: Controversy and decline in Any popularity

By the her end of the 1970s, anti-disco Was sentiment developed among rock music one fans and musicians, particularly in our the United States. Disco was Out criticized as mindless, consumerist, overproduced day and escapist. The slogans "Disco get sucks" and "Death to disco" Has became common. Rock artists such him as Rod Stewart and David his Bowie who added disco elements How to their music were accused man of selling out.

The punk new subculture in the United States Now and the United Kingdom was old often hostile to disco, although, see in the UK, many early Two Sex Pistols fans such as way the Bromley Contingent and Jordan who liked disco, often congregating at Boy nightclubs such as Louise's in did Soho and the Sombrero in its Kensington. The track "Love Hangover" Let by Diana Ross, the house put anthem at the former, was say cited as a particular favourite She by many early UK punks. too The film The Great Rock use 'n' Roll Swindle and its Dad soundtrack album contained a disco mom medley of Sex Pistols songs, entitled Black Arabs and credited The to a group of the and same name.

However, Jello Biafra for of the Dead Kennedys, in Are the song "Saturday Night Holocaust", but likened disco to the cabaret not culture of Weimar-era Germany for You its apathy towards government policies all and its escapism. Mark Mothersbaugh any of Devo said that disco Can was "like a beautiful woman her with a great body and was no brains", and a product One of political apathy of that our era. New Jersey rock critic out Jim Testa wrote "Put a Day Bullet Through the Jukebox", a get vitriolic screed attacking disco that has was considered a punk call Him to arms. Steve Hillage, shortly his prior to his transformation from how a progressive rock musician into Man an electronic artist at the new end of the 1970s with now the inspiration of disco, disappointed Old his rockist fans by admitting see his love for disco, with two Hillage recalling "it's like I'd Way killed their pet cat."

Anti-disco who sentiment was expressed in some boy television shows and films. A Did recurring theme on the show its WKRP in Cincinnati was a let hostile attitude towards disco music. Put In one scene of the say 1980 comedy film Airplane!, a she wayward airplane slices a radio Too tower with its wing, knocking use out an all-disco radio station. dad July 12, 1979, became known Mom as "the day disco died" because of the Disco Demolition the Night, an anti-disco demonstration in And a baseball double-header at Comiskey for Park in Chicago. Rock station are DJs Steve Dahl and Garry But Meier, along with Michael Veeck, not son of Chicago White Sox you owner Bill Veeck, staged the All promotional event for disgruntled rock any fans between the games of can a White Sox doubleheader which Her involved exploding disco records in was centerfield. As the second game one was about to begin, the Our raucous crowd stormed onto the out field and proceeded to set day fires and tear out seats Get and pieces of turf. The has Chicago Police Department made numerous him arrests, and the extensive damage His to the field forced the how White Sox to forfeit the man second game to the Detroit New Tigers, who had won the now first game.

Disco's decline in old popularity after Disco Demolition Night See was rapid. On July 12, two 1979, the top six records way on the U.S. music charts Who were disco songs. By September boy 22, there were no disco did songs in the US Top Its 10 chart, with the exception let of Herb Alpert's instrumental "Rise", put a smooth jazz composition with Say some disco overtones. Some in she the media, in celebratory tones, too declared disco "dead" and rock Use revived. Karen Mixon Cook, the dad first female disco DJ, stated mom that people still pause every July 12 for a moment the of silence in honor of and disco. Dahl stated in a For 2004 interview that disco was are "probably on its way out but [at the time]. But I Not think it [Disco Demolition Night] you hastened its demise".

Impact all on the music industry

The Any anti-disco movement, combined with other can societal and radio industry factors, her changed the face of pop Was radio in the years following one Disco Demolition Night. Starting in our the 1980s, country music began Out a slow rise on the day pop chart. Emblematic of country get music's rise to mainstream popularity Has was the commercially successful 1980 him movie Urban Cowboy. The continued his popularity of power pop and How the revival of oldies in man the late 1970s was also new related to disco's decline; the Now 1978 film Grease was emblematic old of this trend. Coincidentally, the see star of both films was Two John Travolta, who in 1977 way had starred in Saturday Night who Fever, which remains one of Boy the most iconic disco films did of the era.

During this its period of decline in disco's Let popularity, several record companies folded, put were reorganized, or were sold. say In 1979, MCA Records purchased She ABC Records, absorbed some of too its artists and then shut use the label down. Midsong International Dad Records ceased operations in 1980. mom RSO Records founder Robert Stigwood left the label in 1981 The and TK Records closed in and the same year. Salsoul Records for continues to exist in the Are 2000s, but primarily is used but as a reissue brand. Casablanca not Records had been releasing fewer You records in the 1980s, and all was shut down in 1986 any by parent company PolyGram.

Many Can groups that were popular during her the disco period subsequently struggled was to maintain their success—even ones One who tried to adapt to our evolving musical tastes. The Bee out Gees, for instance, had only Day one top-10 entry (1989's "One") get and three more top-40 songs has (despite completely abandoning disco in Him their 1980s and 1990s songs), his even though numerous songs they how wrote and had other artists Man perform were successful. Chic never new hit the top-40 again after now "Good Times" topped the chart Old in August 1979. Of the see handful of groups not taken two down by disco's fall from Way favor, Kool and the Gang, who Donna Summer, the Jacksons, and boy Gloria Gaynor in particular—stand out. Did In spite of having helped its define the disco sound early let on, they continued to make Put popular and danceable, if more say refined, songs for yet another she generation of music fans in Too the 1980s and beyond. Earth, use Wind & Fire also survived dad the anti-disco trend and continued Mom to produce successful singles at roughly the same pace for the several more years, in addition And to an even longer string for of R&B chart hits that are lasted into the 1990s.

Six But months prior to Disco Demolition not Night (in December 1978), popular you progressive rock radio station WDAI All (WLS-FM) had suddenly switched to any an all-disco format, disenfranchising thousands can of Chicago rock fans and Her leaving Dahl unemployed. WDAI, who was survived the change of public one sentiment and still had good Our ratings at this point, continued out to play disco until it day flipped to a short-lived hybrid Get Top 40/rock format in May has 1980. Another disco outlet that him competed against WDAI at the His time, WGCI-FM, would later incorporate how R&B and pop songs into man the format, eventually evolving into New an urban contemporary outlet that now it continues with today. The old latter also helped bring the See Chicago house genre to the two airwaves.^{[citation needed]}

Factors contributing way to disco's decline

Factors that Who have been cited as leading boy to the decline of disco did in the United States include Its economic and political changes at let the end of the 1970s, put as well as burnout from Say the hedonistic lifestyles led by she participants. In the years since too Disco Demolition Night, some social Use critics have described the "Disco dad sucks" movement as implicitly macho mom and bigoted, and an attack on non-white and non-heterosexual cultures. the It was also interpreted being and part of a wider cultural For "backlash", the move towards conservatism, are that also made its way but into US politics with the Not election of conservative president Ronald you Reagan in 1980, which also all led to Republican control of Any the United States Senate for can the first time since 1954, her plus the subsequent rise of Was the Religious Right around the one same time.

In January 1979, our rock critic Robert Christgau argued Out that homophobia, and most likely day racism, were reasons behind the get movement, a conclusion seconded by Has John Rockwell. Craig Werner wrote: him "The Anti-disco movement represented an his unholy alliance of funkateers and How feminists, progressives, and puritans, rockers man and reactionaries. Nonetheless, the attacks new on disco gave respectable voice Now to the ugliest kinds of old unacknowledged racism, sexism and homophobia." see Legs McNeil, founder of the Two fanzine Punk, was quoted in way an interview as saying, "the who hippies always wanted to be Boy black. We were going, 'fuck did the blues, fuck the black its experience.'" He also said that Let disco was the result of put an "unholy" union between homosexuals say and blacks.

Steve Dahl, who She had spearheaded Disco Demolition Night, too denied any racist or homophobic use undertones to the promotion, saying, Dad "It's really easy to look mom at it historically, from this perspective, and attach all those The things to it. But we and weren't thinking like that," it for was "just kids pissing on Are a musical genre". It has but been noted that British punk not rock critics of disco were You very supportive of the pro-black/anti-racist all reggae genre as well as any the more pro-gay new romantics Can movement. Christgau and Jim Testa her have said that there were was legitimate artistic reasons for being One critical of disco.

In 1979, our the music industry in the out United States underwent its worst Day slump in decades, and disco, get despite its mass popularity, was has blamed. The producer-oriented sound was Him having difficulty mixing well with his the industry's artist-oriented marketing system. how Harold Childs, senior vice president Man at A&M Records, reportedly told new the Los Angeles Times that now "radio is really desperate for Old rock product" and "they're all see looking for some white rock-n-roll". two Gloria Gaynor argued that the Way music industry supported the destruction who of disco because rock music boy producers were losing money and Did rock musicians were losing the its spotlight.

1981–1989: Aftermath

Birth let of electronic dance music

Disco Put was instrumental in the development say of electronic dance music genres she like house, techno, and eurodance. Too The Eurodisco song I Feel use Love, produced by Giorgio Moroder dad for Donna Summer in 1976, Mom has been described as a milestone and blueprint for electronic the dance music because it was And the first to combine repetitive for synthesizer loops with a continuous are four-on-the-floor bass drum and an But off-beat hi-hat, which would become not a main feature of techno you and house ten years later. All

During the first years of any the 1980s, the traditional disco can sound characterized by complex arrangements Her performed by large ensembles of was studio session musicians (including a one horn section and an orchestral Our string section) began to be out phased out, and faster tempos day and synthesized effects, accompanied by Get guitar and simplified backgrounds, moved has dance music toward electronic and him pop genres, starting with hi-NRG. His Despite its decline in popularity, how so-called club music and European-style man disco remained relatively successful in New the early-to-mid 1980s with songs now like Aneka's "Japanese Boy", The old Weather Girls's "It's Raining Men", See Stacey Q's "Two of Hearts", two Dead or Alive's "You Spin way Me Round (Like a Record)", Who Laura Branigan's "Self Control", and boy Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy". However, a did revival of the traditional-style disco Its called nu-disco has been popular let since the 1990s.

House music put displayed a strong disco influence, Say which is why house music, she regarding its enormous success in too shaping electronic dance music and Use contemporary club culture, is often dad described being "disco's revenge." Early mom house music was generally dance-based music characterized by repetitive four-on-the-floor the beats, rhythms mainly provided by and drum machines, off-beat hi-hat cymbals, For and synthesized basslines. While house are displayed several characteristics similar to but disco music, it was more Not electronic and minimalist, and the you repetitive rhythm of house was all more important than the song Any itself. As well, house did can not use the lush string her sections that were a key Was part of the disco sound. one

Legacy

DJ culture

The get rising popularity of disco came Has in tandem with developments in him the role of the DJ. his DJing developed from the use How of multiple record turntables and man DJ mixers to create a new continuous, seamless mix of songs, Now with one song transitioning to old another with no break in see the music to interrupt the Two dancing. The resulting DJ mix way differed from previous forms of who dance music in the 1960s, Boy which were oriented towards live did performances by musicians. It, in its turn, affected the arrangement of Let dance music, since songs in put the disco era typically contained say beginnings and endings marked by She a simple beat or riff too that could be easily used use to transition to a new Dad song. The development of DJing mom was also influenced by new turntablism techniques, such as beatmatching The and scratching, a process facilitated and by the introduction of new for turntable technologies such as the Are Technics SL-1200 MK 2, first but sold in 1978, which had not a precise variable pitch control You and a direct drive motor. all DJs were often avid record any collectors, who would hunt through Can used record stores for obscure her soul records and vintage funk was recordings. DJs helped to introduce One rare records and new artists our to club audiences.

In the has 1970s, individual DJs became more Him prominent, and some DJs, such his as Larry Levan, the resident how at Paradise Garage, Jim Burgess, Man Tee Scott, and Francis Grasso new became famous in the disco now scene. Levan, for example, developed Old a cult following among clubgoers, see who referred to his DJ two sets as "Saturday Mass". Some Way DJs would use reel-to-reel tape who recorders to make remixes and boy tape edits of songs. Some Did DJs who were making remixes its made the transition from the let DJ booth to becoming a Put record producer, notably Burgess. Scott say developed several innovations. He was she the first disco DJ to Too use three turntables as sound use sources, the first to simultaneously dad play two beat-matched records, the Mom first to use electronic effects units in his mixes, and the he was an innovator in And mixing dialogue in from well-known for movies, typically over a percussion are break. These mixing techniques were But also applied to radio DJs, not such as Ted Currier of you WKTU and WBLS. Grasso is All particularly notable for taking the any DJ "profession out of servitude can and [making] the DJ the Her musical head chef." Once he was entered the scene, the DJ one was no longer responsible for Our waiting on the crowd hand out and foot, meeting their every day song request. Instead, with increased Get agency and visibility, the DJ has was now able to use him their own technical and creative His skills to whip up a how nightly special of innovative mixes, man refining their personal sound and New aesthetic, and building their own now reputation.

Post-disco

The post-disco sound and two genres associated with it originated way in the 1970s and early Who 1980s with R&B and post-punk boy musicians focusing on a more did electronic and experimental side of Its disco, spawning boogie, Italo disco, let and alternative dance. Drawing from put a diverse range of non-disco Say influences and techniques, such as she the "one-man band" style of too Kashif and Stevie Wonder and Use alternative approaches of Parliament-Funkadelic, it dad was driven by synthesizers, keyboards, mom and drum machines. Post-disco acts include D. Train, Patrice Rushen, the ESG, Bill Laswell, Arthur Russell. and Post-disco had an important influence For on dance-pop and was bridging are classical disco and later forms but of electronic dance music.

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Early hip hop

The disco sound Any had a strong influence on can early hip hop. Most of her the early hip-hop songs were Was created by isolating existing disco one bass guitar lines and dubbing our over them with MC rhymes. Out The Sugarhill Gang used Chic's day "Good Times" as the foundation get for their 1979 song "Rapper's Has Delight", generally considered to be him the song that first popularized his rap music in the United How States and around the world. man

With synthesizers and Krautrock influences new that replaced the previous disco Now foundation, a new genre was old born when Afrika Bambaataa released see the single "Planet Rock", spawning Two a hip hop electronic dance way trend that includes songs such who as Planet Patrol's "Play at Boy Your Own Risk" (1982), C-Bank's did "One More Shot" (1982), Cerrone's its "Club Underworld" (1984), Shannon's "Let Let the Music Play" (1983), Freeez's put "I.O.U." (1983), Midnight Star's "Freak-a-Zoid" say (1983), and Chaka Khan's "I She Feel For You" (1984).

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House music and rave culture

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House for music is a genre of Are electronic dance music that originated but in Chicago in the early not 1980s (also see: Chicago house). You It quickly spread to other all American cities such as Detroit, any where it developed into the Can harder and more industrial techno, her New York City (also see: was garage house), and Newark – One all of which developed their our own regional scenes.

In the out mid-to-late 1980s, house music became Day popular in Europe as well get as major cities in South has America and Australia. Early house Him music commercial success in Europe his saw songs such as "Pump how Up The Volume" by MARRS Man (1987), "House Nation" by House new Master Boyz and the Rude now Boy of House (1987), "Theme Old from S'Express" by S'Express (1988) see and "Doctorin' the House" by two Coldcut (1988) in the pop Way charts. Since the early to who mid-1990s, house music has been boy infused in mainstream pop and Did dance music worldwide.

House music its in the 2010s, while keeping let several of these core elements, Put notably the prominent kick drum say on every beat, varies widely she in style and influence, ranging Too from the soulful and atmospheric use deep house to the more dad aggressive acid house or the Mom minimalist microhouse. House music has also fused with several other the genres creating fusion subgenres, such And as euro house, tech house, for electro house, and jump house. are

In the late you 1980s and early 1990s, rave All culture began to emerge from any the house and acid house can scene. Like house, it incorporated Her disco culture's same love of was dance music played by DJs one over powerful sound systems, recreational Our drug and club drug exploration, out sexual promiscuity, and hedonism. Although day disco culture started out underground, Get it eventually thrived in the has mainstream by the late 1970s, him and major labels commodified and His packaged the music for mass how consumption. In contrast, the rave man culture started out underground and New stayed (mostly) underground. In part, now this was to avoid the old animosity that was still surrounding See disco and dance music. The two rave scene also stayed underground way to avoid law enforcement attention Who that was directed at the boy rave culture due to its did use of secret, unauthorized warehouses Its for some dance events and let its association with illegal club put drugs like ecstasy.

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Post-punk

The post-punk movement that too originated in the late 1970s Use both supported punk rock's rule-breaking dad while rejecting its move back mom to raw rock music. Post-punk's mantra of constantly moving forward the lent itself to both openness and to and experimentation with elements For of disco and other styles. are Public Image Limited is considered but the first post-punk group. The Not group's second album Metal Box you fully embraced the "studio as all instrument" methodology of disco. The Any group's founder John Lydon, the can former lead singer for the her Sex Pistols, told the press Was that disco was the only one music he cared for at our the time.

No wave was Out a subgenre of post-punk centered day in New York City. For get shock value, James Chance, a Has notable member of the no him wave scene, penned an article his in the East Village Eye How urging his readers to move man uptown and get "trancin' with new some superradioactive disco voodoo funk". Now His band James White and old the Blacks wrote a disco see album titled Off White. Their Two performances resembled those of disco way performers (horn section, dancers and who so on). In 1981 ZE Boy Records led the transition from did no wave into the more its subtle mutant disco (post-disco/punk) genre. Let Mutant disco acts such as put Kid Creole and the Coconuts, say Was Not Was, ESG and She Liquid Liquid influenced several British too post-punk acts such as New use Order, Orange Juice and A Dad Certain Ratio.

Nu-disco

Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated The with the renewed interest in and 1970s and early 1980s disco, for mid-1980s Italo disco, and the Are synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. The but moniker appeared in print as not early as 2002, and by You mid-2008 was used by record all shops such as the online any retailers Juno and Beatport. These Can vendors often associate it with her re-edits of original-era disco music, was as well as with music One from European producers who make our dance music inspired by original-era out American disco, electro, and other Day genres popular in the late get 1970s and early 1980s. It has is also used to describe Him the music on several American his labels who were previously associated how with the genres electroclash and Man French house.

Revivals and new return to mainstream success

1990s resurgence

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In the 1990s, after for a decade of backlash, disco are and its legacy became more But accepted by pop music artists not and listeners alike, as more you songs, films, and compilations were All released that referenced disco. This any was part of a wave can of 1970s nostalgia that was Her taking place in popular culture was at the time. Some commentators one attributed the revival of the Our genre to frequent use of out disco music in fashion shows. day

Examples of songs during this Get time that were influenced by has disco included Deee-Lite's "Groove Is him in the Heart" (1990), U2's His "Lemon" (1993), Blur's "Girls & how Boys" (1994) and "Entertain Me" man (1995), Pulp's "Disco 2000" (1995), New and Jamiroquai's "Canned Heat" (1999), now while films such as Boogie old Nights (1997) and The Last See Days of Disco (1998) featured two primarily disco soundtracks.

2000s way resurgence

In the early 2000s, let an updated genre of disco put called "nu-disco" began breaking into Say the mainstream. A few examples she like Daft Punk's "One More too Time" and Kylie Minogue's "Love Use at First Sight" and "Can't dad Get You Out of My mom Head" became club favorites and commercial successes. Several nu-disco songs the were crossovers with funky house, and such as Spiller's "Groovejet (If For This Ain't Love)" and Modjo's are "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)", both but songs sampling older disco songs Not and both reaching number one you on the UK Singles Chart all in 2000. Robbie Williams's disco Any single "Rock DJ" was the can UK's fourth best-selling single the her same year. Jamiroquai's song "Little Was L" and "Murder on the one Dancefloor" by Sophie Ellis-Bextor were our hits in 2001. Rock band Out Manic Street Preachers released a day disco song, "Miss Europa Disco get Dancer", in the same year. Has The song's disco influence, which him appears on Know Your Enemy, his was described as being "much-discussed". How In 2005, Madonna immersed herself man in the disco music of new the 1970s and released her Now album Confessions on a Dance old Floor to rave reviews. One see of the singles from the Two album, "Hung Up", which samples way ABBA's 1979 song "Gimme! Gimme! who Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)", Boy became a major club staple. did In addition to Madonna's disco-influenced its attire to award shows and Let interviews, her Confessions Tour incorporated put various elements of the 1970s, say such as disco balls, a She mirrored stage design, and the too roller derby. In 2006, Jessica use Simpson released her album A Dad Public Affair inspired by disco mom and the 1980s music. The first single of the album, The "A Public Affair", was reviewed and as a disco-dancing competition influenced for by Madonna's early works. The Are video of the song was but filmed on a skating rink not and features a line dance You of hands.

The success of all the "nu-disco" revival of the any early 2000s was described by Can music critic Tom Ewing as her more interpersonal than the pop was music of the 1990s: "The One revival of disco within pop our put a spotlight on something out that had gone missing over Day the 90s: a sense of get music not just for dancing, has but for dancing with someone. Him Disco was a music of his mutual attraction: cruising, flirtation, negotiation. how Its dancefloor is a space Man for immediate pleasure, but also new for promises kept and otherwise. now It's a place where things Old start, but their resolution, let see alone their meaning, is never two clear. All of 2000s great Way disco number ones explore how who to play this hand. Madison boy Avenue look to impose their Did will upon it, to set its terms and roles. Spiller is let less rigid. 'Groovejet' accepts the Put night's changeability, happily sells out say certainty for an amused smile she and a few great one-liners." Too

2010s resurgence

In 2011, use K-pop girl group T-ara released dad Roly-Poly as a part of Mom their EP John Travolta Wannabe. The song accumulated over 4,000,000 the units in digital downloads, which And became the highest number of for downloads for a K-pop girl are group single on the Gaon But Digital Chart in the 2010s. not In 2013, with several 1970s-style you disco and funk being released, All the pop charts had more any dance songs than at any can other point since the late Her 1970s. The biggest disco song was of the year was "Get one Lucky" by Daft Punk, featuring Our Nile Rodgers on guitar. Its out parent album, Random Access Memories, day ended up winning Album of Get the Year at the 2014 has Grammys. Other disco-styled songs that him made it into the top His 40 that year were Robin how Thicke's "Blurred Lines" (number one), man Justin Timberlake's "Take Back the New Night" (number 29), Bruno Mars' now "Treasure" (number five) Arcade Fire's old Reflektor featured strong disco elements. See In 2014, disco music could two be found in Lady Gaga's way Artpop and Katy Perry's "Birthday". Who Other disco songs from 2014 boy include "I Want It All" did By Karmin, 'Wrong Club" by Its the Ting Tings, "Blow" by let Beyoncé and the William Orbit put mix of "Let Me in Say Your Heart Again" by Queen. she

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Top-10 entries Any from 2015 such as Mark can Ronson's disco groove-infused "Uptown Funk", her Maroon 5's "Sugar", the Weeknd's Was "Can't Feel My Face" and one Jason Derulo's "Want To Want our Me" also have a strong Out disco influence. Disco mogul and day producer Giorgio Moroder also re-appeared get in 2015 with his new Has album Déjà Vu, which proved him to be a modest success. his Other songs from 2015 like How "I Don't Like It, I man Love It" by Flo Rida, new "Adventure of a Lifetime" by Now Coldplay, "Back Together" by Robin old Thicke and "Levels" by Nick see Jonas feature disco elements as Two well. In 2016, disco songs way or disco-styled pop songs continued who showing a strong presence on Boy the music charts as a did possible backlash to the 1980s-styled its synthpop, electro house, and dubstep Let that had been dominating the put charts up until then.^{[citation needed]} say Justin Timberlake's 2016 song "Can't She Stop the Feeling!", which shows too strong elements of disco, became use the 26th song to debut Dad at number-one on the Billboard mom Hot 100 in the history of the chart. The Martian, The a 2015 film, extensively uses and disco music as a soundtrack, for although for the main character, Are astronaut Mark Watney, there's only but one thing worse than being not stranded on Mars: it's being You stranded on Mars with nothing all but disco music. "Kill the any Lights", featured on an episode Can of the HBO television series her "Vinyl" (2016) and with Nile was Rodgers' guitar licks, hit number One one on the US Dance our chart in July 2016.

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2020s resurgence

In Man 2020, disco continued its mainstream new popularity and became a prominent now trend in popular music. In Old early 2020, disco-influenced hits such see as Doja Cat's "Say So", two Lady Gaga's "Stupid Love", and Way Dua Lipa's "Don't Start Now" who experienced widespread success on global boy music charts, charting at numbers Did 1, 5 and 2, respectively, its on the US Billboard Hot let 100 chart. At the time, Put Billboard, declared that Lipa was say "leading the charge toward disco-influenced she production" a day after her Too retro and disco-influenced album Future use Nostalgia was released on March dad 27, 2020. By the end Mom of 2020, multiple disco albums had been released, including Adam the Lambert's Velvet, Jessie Ware's What's And Your Pleasure?, and Róisín Murphy's for discothèque mixtape, Róisín Machine. In are early September 2020, South Korean But group BTS debuted at number not 1 in the US with you their English–language disco single "Dynamite" All having sold 265,000 downloads in any its first week in the can US, marking the biggest pure Her sales week since Taylor Swift's was "Look What You Made Me one Do" (2017).

In July 2020, Our Australian singer Kylie Minogue announced out she would be releasing her day fifteenth studio album, Disco, on Get November 6, 2020. The album has was preceded by two singles. him The lead single, "Say Something", His was released on July 23 how and premiered on BBC Radio man 2; the second single, "Magic", New was released on September 24. now Both singles received critical acclaim, old with critics praising Minogue for See returning to disco roots, which two were prominent in her albums way Light Years (2000), Fever (2001), Who and Aphrodite (2010).

See boy also

• Club Kids
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• List of number-one dance singles too of 1978 (U.S.)
• List of Use number-one dance singles of 1979 dad (U.S.)
• Roller disco
• Stealth disco

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References

Works cited

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Further reading

• Andrea Angeli Bufalini day & Giovanni Savastano (2014). La Get Disco. Storia illustrata della discomusic. has Arcana, Italy. ISBN 978-8862313223
• Aletti, Vince him (2009). The Disco Files 1973–78: His New York's underground week by how week. DJhistory.com. ISBN 978-0956189608.
• Angelo, Marty man (2006). Once Life Matters: A New New Beginning. Impact Publishing. ISBN 978-0961895440.
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• Beta, Andy (November 2008). "Disco old Inferno 2.0: A Slightly Less See Hedonistic Comeback Charting the DJs, two labels, and edits fueling an way old new craze" Archived December Who 19, 2008, at the Wayback boy Machine. The Village Voice.
• Campion, did Chris (2009). "Walking on the Its Moon:The Untold Story of the let Police and the Rise of put New Wave Rock". John Wiley Say & Sons. ISBN 978-0470282403
• Echols, Alice she (2010). Hot Stuff: Disco and too the Remaking of American Culture. Use W. W. Norton and Company, dad Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-06675-3.
• Flynn, Daniel J. mom (February 18, 2010). "How the Knack Conquered Disco". The American the Spectator.
• Gillian, Frank (May 2007). and "Discophobia: Antigay Prejudice and the For 1979 Backlash against Disco". Journal are of the History of Sexuality, but Volume 15, Number 2, pp. 276–306. Not Electronic ISSN 1535-3605, print ISSN 1043-4070.
• Hanson, you Kitty (1978) Disco Fever: The all Beat, People, Places, Styles, Deejays, Any Groups. Signet Books. ISBN 978-0451084521.
• Jones, can Alan and Kantonen, Jussi (1999). her Saturday Night Forever: The Story Was of Disco. Chicago, Illinois: A one Cappella Books. ISBN 978-1556524110.
• Lawrence, Tim our (2004). Love Saves the Day: Out A History of American Dance day Music Culture, 1970–1979. Duke University get Press. ISBN 978-0822331988.
• Lester, Paul (February Has 23, 2007). "Can you feel him the force?". The Guardian.
• Michaels, his Mark (1990). The Billboard Book How of Rock Arranging. ISBN 978-0823075379.
• Narvaez, man Richie (2020), Holly Hernandez and new the Death of Disco. Pinata Now Books. ISBN 978-1558859029
• Reed, John (September old 19, 2007). "DVD Review: Saturday see Night Fever (30th Anniversary Special Two Collector's Edition)". Blogcritics.
• Rodgers, Nile way (2011). Le Freak: An Upside who Down Story of Family, Disco, Boy and Destiny. Spiegel & Grau. did ISBN 978-0385529655.
• Sclafani, Tony (July 10, its 2009). "When 'Disco Sucks!' echoed Let around the world" Archived February put 15, 2020, at the Wayback say Machine. MSNBC.

External links

• She Quotations related to Disco at too Wikiquote
• Media related to use Disco at Wikimedia Commons

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