A Study Of The Disco Phenomenon Including Its Musical Characteristics, Production, Disco Clubs, And Disco Culture

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Disco is a genre of dance music. Its popularity peaked during the middle to late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that cat... Read more

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Disco is a genre of dance music. Its popularity peaked during the middle to late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco was a reaction by New York City's gays as well as black and Latino heterosexuals against both the domination of rock music and the demonization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. By the late 1970s most major U.S. cities had thriving disco club scenes. The scene was centered on discotheques, nightclubs, and private loft parties where DJs would play disco hits through powerful PA systems for the patrons who came to dance. This book studies the musical, technical, and cultural aspects of disco including the wall of sound, disco mix, disco orchestration, Studio 54, and qiana. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. Less