If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...

A normal resting heart rate for an adult falls between 60 and 100 beats per minute. The song “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees has a tempo of 103 beats per minute. No wonder listening to “Stayin’ Alive” ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...