However, the crowds were very mixed in the early years, so a lot of other groups also found a home within disco too. African Americans, Latino Americans and women — and a mixture of all these identities — all found a way to express themselves within disco.
For example, a lot of most influential performers are were African American women who developed a really strong relationship with gay audiences. Singers like Grace Jones,Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer… the list goes on, had lyrics about survival of hardship and emotional resilience that were profoundly appealing to the gay dance crowd.
The people who led that backlash, those in mainstream culture, were the Democrats who switched to voting Republican and brought Reagan to power in s. Tim Lawrence says: By disco was outselling rock music in America which came as a huge shock to the music establishment, because it was heavily backing rock. Initially it was DJs clawing around finding records to play.
So independent record labels were crucial for the development of disco. A label called Sceptre Records was one of the first to spot what was going on in the discotheques so started to commission records specifically for the disco market. Another indie, Salsoul, realised that dancers wanted to own 12 inch singles they made for DJs, so in they were the first label to release one commercially, which proved a major foundation for dance culture more widely.
So disco was a great moment for demonstrating the nimbleness of indies and their ability to react quickly to the music on the street. The key difference was they invited a DJ, Walter Gibbons, to remix the record for the dance floor. This proved scandalous and lots of producers took great offence. So the remix, which is now ubiquitous, came to the fore thanks to disco. The most notable disco artists had their career peaks in the s.
She was active musically since to after she met her death. During her long career, she produced 32 hit songs which earned spots in the US Billboard Hot Some of her hit songs are Lady of the Night, cats without claws, and Crayons which she produced in A band by the name KC and the Sunshine band was another big thing in the disco industry. It was formed by Harry Wayne Casey in and is still active to date.
Their all time hit song is known as get down tonight. Although the genre became less influential in the US in the s, it left a huge impact. The minorities in the society such as gays, the black American, and the Hispanics could make it big in the Music industry. The origin of the disco dance can be first identified in the formation of the specific night clubs — discotheques.
As years went by, more and more music venues adopted the form of these French night clubs. By they appeared first in the United States, where they became very popular with music fans of Jazz, Funk, Soul and other alternative music and dance genres, with the term discotheque and disco also referring to the form of a short female dress that fans of these night clubs liked to wear.
Who are the performers? Describe them in terms of gender, ethnicity, etc. What are the people listening to the music doing? What kind of mood do they seem to be in? How would you describe the style of dancing they are doing? Why do you think many of these people have come to the disco to hear the music and dance?
How might this music provide them with an escape from the issues that they face in their daily lives? Discuss: According to the discussion, what is the attraction of a disco?
Why might some people like this atmosphere more than others? How would you describe the costumes and gestures of the Village People in their performance? How do they reflect common stereotypes about gay men?
How does the success of the Village People as a Disco band reflect the influence of gay culture on the Disco genre? Can you identify elements of this influence in any of the other videos viewed in this lesson? Be as specific as you can. Discuss: What does Tony tell his father about when and where people say positive things about him? What word is used to describe Tony when he is on the dance floor? How are the people at the disco dressed? What kind of atmosphere does the disco offer?
Based on what you have seen in the trailer, why do you think this movie was so successful? Why did it help to make Disco music, and the kind of dancing it encouraged, so popular?
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