Disco music was alive and well in 1979. These are three disco AMA winners from 1979 we still dance along with today.

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 ...

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 ...

When Kylie Minogue was a kid growing up in Australia, her parents played a lot of disco at home. As she and her siblings danced around the house to artists like ABBA and the Bee Gees, she says, she ...

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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 ...

It was a catchphrase you couldn’t avoid hearing three decades ago when a backlash started to develop against the ’70s dance music genre that dominated Top 40 radio stations. The resentment culminated ...

Thanks in large part to producers like Lindstrom, Todd Terje, Prins Thomas, and Daft Punk, disco has seen a strong and steady resurgence over the past twenty years. What was once thought of as a cheap ...

Joshua S. Bamford receives funding from the Research Council of Finland, as part of the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain. Silent disco started back in the 1970s as a convenient way ...