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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 ]
A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment. Nightclubs often have a bar and discothèque (usually simply known as disco) with a dance floor, laser lighting displays, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who mixes recorded music.
They alluded to several elements of the disco era, including disco-style dancing and the film Saturday Night Fever. U2 further and directly alluded to the Village People , a popular disco era band, by similarly adopting the guises of various professions: a motorcycle police officer ( Bono ), a gay-fetish biker ( the Edge ), an American sailor ...
The word "discotheque" is a modification of the French word "bibliotheque" which means (in French), library of books. A club in Paris in the 1950s with twin turntables playing only records modified this word converting it to "discotheque" (then meaning library of records).
Clubbing (also known as club culture, related to raving) is the activity of visiting and gathering socially at nightclubs (discotheques, discos or just clubs) and festivals. That includes socializing, listening to music, dancing, drinking alcohol and using other recreational drugs. It is often done to hear new music on larger, high-end audio ...
Paradise Garage, also known as "the Garage" [1] [2] or the "Gay-rage", [3] [4] [5] was a New York City discotheque notable in the history of dance and pop music, as well as LGBT and nightclub cultures.
The 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and consisted of two semi-finals on 18 May and 20 May 2021, and the grand final on 22 May 2021. [2]
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