disco
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Disco is a dance music genre and cultural movement that emerged in the late 1960s from urban nightlife scenes, particularly within African-American, Italian-American, Latino, and queer communities. The music is characterized by a steady four-on-the-floor beat combined with syncopated basslines, strings, brass, horns, electric pianos, synthesizers, and electric guitars.
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- Music genre.name
- Disco
- Music genre.image
- File:Disco TGI Bar by John Vance.jpg
- Music genre.caption
- Ceiling of a discothèque
- Music genre.stylistic_origins
- Philadelphia soul funk psychedelic soul pop
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Late 1960s early 1970s, Philadelphia and New York City
- Music genre.other_topics
- Discothèques list of artists old-school hip hop
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46 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Musical characteristics
- Production
- Club culture
- Nightclubs
- Sound and light equipment
- DJs
- Dance
- Fashion
- Drug subculture
- Eroticism and sexual liberation
- History
- 1940s–1960s: First discotheques
- 1960s–1974: Precursors and early disco music
- Early disco culture in the United States
- Early disco culture in the United Kingdom
- 1974–1977: Rise to mainstream
- Motown turning disco
- Euro disco
- 1977–1979: Pop preeminence
- ''Saturday Night Fever'' (John Badham, 1977)
- Disco goes mainstream
- Parodies
- 1979–1981: Controversy and decline in popularity
- Impact on the music industry
- Factors contributing to disco's decline
- 1981–1989: Aftermath
- Birth of electronic dance music
- Legacy
- DJ culture
- Post-disco
- Early hip-hop
- House music and rave culture
- Post-punk
- Nu-disco
- Revivals and return to mainstream success
- 1990s resurgence
- 2000s resurgence
- 2010s resurgence
- 2020s resurgence
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- Citations
- Further reading
- External links
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene, particularly in African-American, Italian-American, Latino and queer communities. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric pianos, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars.
Discothèques as a venue were mostly a French invention, imported to the United States with the opening of Le Club, a members-only restaurant and nightclub located at 416 East 55th Street in Manhattan, by French expatriate Olivier Coquelin, on New Year's Eve 1960.