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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)
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
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.
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: 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.
From there, the trio made the jump from small clubs to the big time. Young, Baker, and Harris started working at one of the most storied live venues for Black music of the time, the Uptown Theater.
Can't Stop the Music is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by Nancy Walker in her only directed featured film. Written by Allan Carr and Bronté Woodard, the film is a pseudo-biography of the 1970s disco group the Village People loosely based on the actual story of how the group formed.
The decision to focus on three primary characters from America’s radio era narrows the documentary to a respectable and digestible 90 minutes. Plus, it is full of fun, fuzzy broadcast sounds ...