PBS PREMIERES POWERFUL, REVISIONIST HISTORY OF POPULAR 1970s MUSIC IN “DISCO: SOUNDTRACK OF A REVOLUTION,” A THREE-PART DOCUSERIES IN SUMMER 2024 Series Shines Light on Disco’s Groovy Beginnings, ...

Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...

In the three-part docuseries Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution, now streaming on PBS, directors and producers Louise Lockwood and Shianne Brown follow the turn of the glitterball from the gay and ...

As disco made its way from neon-lit dance halls to mainstream radio in the mid-1970s, rock bands who enjoyed chart domination in the earlier part of the decade found themselves at a crossroads. They ...

Today, disco music is about as controversial as apple pie. However, in the late 1970s, the genre was polarizing. Some critics and fans hated it because they felt it did not live up to the quality of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If someone says they’re not a fan of 70s disco songs, there’s a good chance they’re not being truthful. Despite the backlash the ...

In 1969, a forgotten Chicago soul band called The Radiants released a song titled "Choo Choo," a superbly danceable soul song with a funky, atmospheric guitar riff; a minimal, instrumental breakdown; ...

In the early seventies, when Vince Aletti was a young music critic in New York, looking to make a name for himself, the biggest music magazines at the time—Rolling Stone, Creem—were dominated by ...

My aches and chills started on the same day that I’d planned on mingling with strangers to the music of Donna Summer. On March 11, the Brooklyn Museum held an opening party for an exhibit on Studio 54 ...