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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 28—Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series American Experience. The producer was pulled into the mix when ...

She had heard the Donna Summer songs, she had watched John Travolta ooze across a dance floor in “Saturday Night Fever” and she had amassed an impressive collection of 12-inch dance mixes. But in the ...

Revisiting the realm of New York's underground dance scene, which in the early 1980s became dominated by mutant disco, no ...

Watch a preview of The War on Disco. Watch a preview of The War on Disco. Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Carlisle Companies. Major funding by ...

“The War on Disco,” a new PBS documentary, explores the backlash against the genre and the issues of race, gender and sexuality that informed it. By Chris Vognar The plan was simple enough: Gather a ...

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 ...

Disco music. What a lark! The energetic genre that rose to fame and popularity in the 1970s helped get about a billion people on the dance floor (roller skates optional). Glittery disco balls met ...

A disco in 1977 – Photo: PBS Subscribe free to Metro Weekly’s digital magazine for the LGBTQ stories that matter most. Before the haters tried to dim all the lights on disco, it was the sound of a ...

A story that’s about much more than music, “The War On Disco” explores how the powerful anti-disco backlash revealed a cultural divide that to some seemed to be driven by racism and homophobia. The ...

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 ...