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1 day ago · An avant-garde retelling of the events of Disco Demolition Night, when Chicago shock jock Steve Dahl led thousands of angry rock fans to declare the destruct...
- 4 min
- Sarah Bonner
1 day ago · The impact of Disco Demolition Night was far reaching. Many saw it as a backlash not so much against the music, but against the gay and black roots of disco. There are still those who take the view that the event was homophobic, sexist, and racist. Although Dahl always rejected that characterisation outright.
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2 days ago · It was released as disco's wave was beginning to break, topping the Billboard charts a few months before the infamous Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park. Had the story ended there, it'd represent the last, best gasp of a culture beaten into temporary irrelevance by thinly-veiled racism and homophobia."
- 4:56 (album version), 3:15 (single version), 8:01 (12" version)
- October 23, 1978
- 1978
3 days ago · The decline of disco was influenced by various factors, including backlash against its commercialization, the “Disco Demolition Night” event, and the evolving music tastes of the time. How has disco music influenced modern music?
1 day ago · Nel vortice della Disco Demolition Night del 12 luglio 1979 al Comiskey Park, ci troviamo a ridere, ma il contesto storico ci svela molto di più di una sempl...
- 14 min
- Steven Düsseldorf
2 days ago · • July 12, 1979: Thousands of fans overran the field at Comiskey Park during the "Disco Demolition Night" promotion between games of a doubleheader. The White Sox forfeited the nightcap to...
4 days ago · When the backlash against disco started, known as "Disco Demolition Night", held in Chicago, ironically the city where house music would be created a few years later, dance music went from being produced by major labels to being created by DJs in the underground club scene. That is until several years later by 1988, when major labels would ...
