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  2. Disco - Wikipedia

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    Disco declined as a major trend in popular music in the United States following the infamous Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and it continued to sharply decline in popularity in the U.S. during the early 1980s; however, it remained popular in Italy and some European countries throughout the 1980s, and during this time also started ...

  3. 1970s in music - Wikipedia

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    Along with disco, funk was one of the most popular genres of music in the 1970s. Primarily an African-American genre, it was characterized by the heavy use of bass and "wah-wah" pedals. Rhythm was emphasized over melody. Artists such as James Brown, Wilson Pickett, the Meters, Parliament-Funkadelic and Sly and the Family Stone pioneered the genre.

  4. New Documentary Illuminates the Heart and Soul of Disco - AOL

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    It was so hot in there she couldn’t get into the cage—the cats were too agitated—so she had to go on top of the cage with a whip. At Studio 54, right from the ceiling, here comes Grace ...

  5. 'Stayin' Alive': The Best (and Worst) Disco Songs of All Time

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    Disco was the main music 50 years ago, but even today the classics are still dance floor bangers — and what was bad then is still pretty awful. ... So that's nice. The fact the song barely ...

  6. Clubbing (subculture) - Wikipedia

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    Clubbing was rooted in the disco wave of the 1970s, and developed in the American club scene in Chicago, New York and Detroit. It was initially predominantly popular with gay, black Americans, due to the social exclusion they had faced elsewhere.

  7. 36 years later, we remember Disco Demolition Night at ...

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    By John Dorn It was a night that brought one of the most destructive revolutions in professional sports history, but one that has been largely forgotten as the decades have blown by. July 12, 1979 ...

  8. Timeline of Billboard number-one dance songs - Wikipedia

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    Donna Summer's Bad Girls (LP cuts) topped the Disco Top 80 chart for seven consecutive weeks, the longest that year. "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" became Summer's seventh disco number one, the most by any act of the decade. [7] 1980: Change's The Glow of Love (LP cuts) topped the Disco Top 100 chart for nine consecutive weeks, the longest ...

  9. Why Disco Should Stay Dead - AOL

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    Some genres of music were so specific to a certain time period, that they’ve either become a joke or seem unimaginable in modern society. ... Disco dominated the airwaves in the late 1970s ...