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The series documented the impact that disco music had on popular culture in the 1970s. The show featured several disco innovators and people related to the culture including: Marty Angelo - Producer, Disco Step-by-Step; Charlie Anzalone - Club DJ; Maurice Brahms - Club owner, Infinity; Harry Wayne Casey - Lead singer of KC and the Sunshine Band
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [132] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [133] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 134 ]
Two men dance together during a 1978 New Year’s Eve party at the Backlot, a popular gay disco in West Hollywood. (Credit: George Rose/Getty Images)
Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights, organized by Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, [1] was the first major museum exhibition to explore the rich, complex world of disco. [2] Pulsating with light and sound, the exhibit followed disco from its beginnings in New York club culture to the fad created by Saturday Night Fever , the ...
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Regine began playing on two turntables there in 1953. Discos began appearing across Europe and the United States. [5] In the 1950s, American radio DJs appeared live at sock hops and "platter parties" and assumed the role of a human jukebox. They typically played 45-rpm records, featuring hit singles on one turntable while talking between songs.
Studio 54 is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Matt Tyrnauer, examining the meteoric history of the Studio 54 nightclub, an extravagant disco venue infamous for hedonistic excess. Those responsible for the club's wild success reflect on the scene they sparked in 1977.