The 1970s was the decade when it comes to disco music. People flocked to clubs with their dancing shoes on wanting to hear music that gave them the combination of joy and thrill. It was all the rage ...

When disco "died," even the most talented icons of the genre couldn't stay relevant at the end of the glittery, ...

Had anyone in the late 1970s predicted that either Richard Nixon or disco — then both widely disparaged — would one day be held in considerably higher regard, they would have been promptly laughed out ...

Disco music was one of the predominant forms of pop music in the 1970s. While subsequent generations made disco songs, the genre never again reached the same level of cultural saturation it did during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elsewhere, disco emerged from the New York underground club scene to gain sudden mainstream popularity, its upbeat, danceable ...

John Lennon was a fan of one of the forgotten disco songs of the 1970s. He had a more tolerant attitude toward disco than some other rock stars. He was also a fan of another track from the same era ...

Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. Still, it wasn’t long before the subculture spread from clubs in New York and Philadelphia ...

Disco is finally getting its due, thanks to works like 2024's PBS docuseries "Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution" and a new book by a former Detroit journalist who has given the indelible music genre ...

Recent books by Tim Lawrence and Douglas Crimp underline the close relationship between the New York art scene of the 1970s and '80s and that most unjustly maligned of musical movements, disco. In ...

The War on Disco explores the culture war that erupted over the spectacular rise of disco music. Originating in underground Black and gay clubs, disco had unseated rock as America’s most popular music ...

A story that’s about much more than music, “The War On Disco” explores how the powerful anti-disco backlash revealed a cultural divide that to some seemed to be driven by racism and homophobia. The ...

With the Beatles a thing of the past and the counterculture revolution aging into different forms of expression, rock music in the 1970s evolved into an even more sophisticated and album-oriented art ...