Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars.
19 January 2024, 10:31. The best disco songs ever, ranked. Picture: Paramount/Epic/CBS/Polydor/YouTube. By Tom Eames. If there was one genre and era of music that got people on the dancefloor more than any other, it was disco of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Disco, beat-driven style of popular music that was the preeminent form of dance music in the 1970s. Its name was derived from discotheque, the name for the type of dance-oriented nightclub that first appeared in the 1960s. Initially ignored by radio, disco received its first significant exposure in.
Legendary dance music producer Giorgio Moroder shares his 34 favorite disco songs of all time, featuring Donna Summer, Bee Gees and more.
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The First Days of Disco. By Hua Hsu. January 29, 2019. As a young music critic in New York in the nineteen-seventies, Vince Aletti offered a version of the disco experience premised not on ...
February 14, 2024. By. Laura Stavropoulos. Photo: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage. In many of its manifestations, dance music has often been derided and dismissed, from “disco sucks” to “heck no to...