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- Many rock and popular artists began including disco-influenced material in their repertoires. 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.
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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.
Disco declined as a major trend in popular music in the United States following the infamous Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and it continued to sharply decline in popularity in the U.S. during the early 1980s; however, it remained popular in Italy and some European countries throughout the 1980s, and during this time also started ...
From the late ’60s to the mid-’80s, Obey and Ade volleyed for the largest and most novel ensemble. In the process much of juju’s Yoruba character yielded to a style more heavily influenced by rock and other international popular music genres.
- Reebee Garofalo
The Disco era was a short-lived time in the 70’s where dance music was automatically coined as “Disco”. These songs were prominent showings on the “Disco Charts” according to Billboard Magazine. They are listed in chronological order of their debut date on the Disco charts only, and not their Hot 100 entry.
The disco movement, as it originally was, ended in the ’80s, as the AIDS epidemic stormed through the gay community and fear settled over the formerly jubilant clubs. But vestiges remain: Velvet ropes still part for the chicest outfit, style mavens still fill gay clubs and parades, and music trends continue to transcend race and sexuality.
1. It saved dancing. Tim Lawrence says: Disco was one of the most influential cultural and musical movements of the 1970s. It was the platform through which social dancing became a popular...
Jan 6, 2010 · Boogie Nights. It became known, and ultimately reviled, as Disco. But the music that surged out of gay underground New York clubs such as the Loft and 12 West in the early 70s was the sound of ...
