Rooted in racism, homophobia and the death of 70s rock, the Disco Sucks movement took aim at the new genre sweeping all ...

If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...

PBS PREMIERES POWERFUL, REVISIONIST HISTORY OF POPULAR 1970s MUSIC IN “DISCO: SOUNDTRACK OF A REVOLUTION,” A THREE-PART DOCUSERIES IN SUMMER 2024 Series Shines Light on Disco’s Groovy Beginnings, ...

Disco music was one of the predominant forms of pop music in the 1970s. While subsequent generations made disco songs, the genre never again reached the same level of cultural saturation it did during ...

In the early seventies, when Vince Aletti was a young music critic in New York, looking to make a name for himself, the biggest music magazines at the time—Rolling Stone, Creem—were dominated by ...

If the world is in shambles, it seems that dancers will follow. In the years following the Vietnam War, disco and its cocaine-snorting, platform shoe-towering and roller skate-wearing followers took ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years ago, on July 12, 1979, what was supposed to be a wacky promotional stunt by shock-rock DJ Steve Dahl to sell tickets ...

What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. The Beatles made great dance songs — as did ...