Disco was more than just a music genre, it was a cultural revolution. This video uncovers the untold history of disco, from its origins in marginalized communities to its meteoric rise and violent ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

(Photo courtesy of the Day by Day Project) An older adult with dementia and a caregiver share a moment of connection through music using the Memory Disco music program. A new program is helping ...

Chicago-based hip-hop artist Ric Wilson is on a spiritual campaign to usher in a new era of disco music, one that’s primed for dance floors and rooted in Black radical traditions. The charismatic ...

We might rightly judge Batman Arkham-style combat by how cool the counters make you feel, what with the core of it melting into second-nature rhythmic meditation that renders you basically unkillable ...

SANTA CRUZ, California – Scientists have found few animals that show they can bob to the beat of music, but a 15-year-old California sea lion in Santa Cruz has shown she digs that disco music. Put on ...

Disco music’s time in the sun may have passed, but the legacy of “The Hustle,” a mega hit in the genre, lives on Alice George - Museums Correspondent On April 18, 1975, Van McCoy and the Soul City ...

Disco, both as a genre and subculture, began in the waning days of 1960s counterculture. In underground bars, parties, and clubs, disco was especially liberating for the LGBTQ+, Black, and Latino ...

The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades. About a decade ago, music producer Vik Sohonie was in New ...

Has there ever been a musical genre more deserving of a glorious coffee table book than disco? In his new book "Disco: Music, Movies, and Mania Under the Disco Ball" (Rizzoli, 2024), gay writer Frank ...

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 ...

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 ...