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18 sty 2024 · During the rough 1970s, people wanted to dance. The documentary ‘Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution’ tells of how the genre grew on the margins, with Black women and gays at its helm, and how it...
By the early 1980s, Disco began to fade in popularity due to its growing commercial sound and lack of originality, but also as a result of rising racism and homophobia directed at disco music and club culture. In 1979, Chicago radio disc jockey, Steve Dahl, hosted Disco Demolition Night in Comiskey Baseball Park.
Dance moves like The Hustle—the age of disco had begun. Characterized by over-the-top orchestral arrangements, mesmerizing rhythms, the classic 4/4 time signature, and emphatic vocals, disco took its name from the clubs that housed music-lovers hungry for the beat.
16 mar 2021 · Disco is an era of music history that can’t go unnoticed when discussing the roots of dance music culture. In fact, it influenced the scene right from the beginning with samples leading the way in Chicago’s house scene while jumping across the Atlantic to foster growth in Italy as Italo Disco.
31 sie 2021 · Chicago House is one of dance music’s most prominent subgenres. The unforgettable spawn of disco, it boasts stylistic origins from electro, Italo disco, and hip hop. Its high-energy sound is anchored by drum machines such as the Roland 808 and 909.
25 cze 2024 · The genre’s first beats rang out in Chicago, where the openly gay producer, remixer and DJ Frankie Knuckles was working at an industrial-building-turned-dance-club.
18 cze 2024 · Disco continues the story, tracing the evolution of the sound to house music from David Mancuso and The Loft in New York City to Frankie Knuckles and the Warehouse in Chicago. It brings it to...
