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"Disco: The Soundtrack of a Revolution," airing on PBS Tuesday, ties the music not just to its place in the evolution of pop but to the liberation movements of the time.
The origins of disco in the Black and Brown gay clubs of New York City is commonplace knowledge, but Disco sets the story in the social, political, economic, and musical context of the time. As ...
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [133] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [134] 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. [ 135 ]
Disco's Revenge is a 2024 Canadian documentary film, directed by Omar Majeed and Peter Mishara. [1] The film centres on the history and culture of disco music, tracing the ways in which the genre is still a central influence on contemporary pop music despite its nominal "death" in the late 1970s. [2]
In late 2002, Gaynor appeared with R&B stars on the "Rhythm, Love, and Soul" edition of the PBS series American Soundtrack. Her performance of the disco hit "I Will Survive" and new single "I Never Knew" was included on the accompanying live album that was released in 2004.
The Secret Disco Revolution is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jamie Kastner and released in 2012. [1] Profiling the disco genre of music and the club culture surrounding it, the film is structured around academic Alice Echols's thesis that the genre played an important role in spurring advances in gender, racial and LGBTQ equality in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion was a 2004 musical documentary special which aired on PBS.The special featured Irene Cara, KC & The Sunshine Band, Yvonne Elliman, The Hues Corporation, Peaches & Herb, Karen Lynn Gorney, A Taste of Honey, Rob Parissi of Wild Cherry, Leo Sayer, Deney Terrio, Frankie Valli, Martha Wash, Barry Williams, Norma Jean Wright and Felton Pilate.
"The Love I Lost" is considered an early example of disco. [1] The track was one of the transitional songs marking the emergence of disco from traditional rhythm and blues as a distinctive style of music. [2] The 2024 PBS series Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution explores the importance of "The Love I Lost" to the history of disco music. [3]