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 ...

There was once an indelible tension between rock and disco, culminating in a so-called “disco demolition” night in 1979 that devolved into a riot. As the decades have rolled past, however, much of ...

Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...

As disco made its way from neon-lit dance halls to mainstream radio in the mid-1970s, rock bands who enjoyed chart domination in the earlier part of the decade found themselves at a crossroads. They ...

The audio link above is a radio story for All Things Considered about the late Larry Levan, the producer and DJ whose residency at New York's Paradise Garage between 1977 and 1987 remains the most ...

There was once an indelible tension between rock and disco, culminating in a so-called "disco demolition" night in 1979 that devolved into a riot. As the decades have rolled past, however, much of ...