Disco! The very word hustles you back to the 1970s, the decade in which it was gloriously born in the loft parties and basement clubs of New York, where it blossomed into a national obsession and entered its decadent phase, when Ethel Merman went disco. And if you don't remember the ’70s, you may recall parties when you dressed up in your parents' old clothes and danced to their records.
The 'disco demolitions' that were briefly in the news — public destruction of disco records, most famously causing a riot at Chicago's Comiskey Park — were as much as anything a matter of straight white rock fans reacting to the straight white embrace of disco, as hundreds of radio stations converted to the music full-time. And so, chasing excitement, cutting-edge dance music went underground again, as 'Soundtrack of a Revolution' duly notes.
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