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Infobox Music genre
|name=Disco
|color=gold
|bgcolor=black
|stylistic_origins=R&B
Funk
Various Soul styles
Rock and Roll
Pop rock
Latin-American music
|cultural_origins=Late 1960s; United States
|instruments=Electric guitar, Bass guitar, Drums, Keyboards, big band instruments, Strings, Latin percussion
|popularity= mid 1970s - early 1980s
|derivatives=
|regional_scenes=
|other_topics=Saturday Night Fever
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Disco is a style of pop music that was most popular from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Disco music has a strong beat that people can dance to. People usually dance to disco music at bars called disco clubs. The word "disco" is also used to refer to the style of dancing that people do to disco music, or to the style of clothes that people wear to go disco dancing.
Disco was at its most popular in the United States and Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Disco was brought into the mainstream by the hit movie Saturday Night Fever, which was released in 1977. This movie, which starred John Travolta, showed people doing disco dancing. Many radio stations played disco in the late 1970s.
Disco music[change | change source]
Disco music blends pop music with funk music, soul music, Latin music such as salsa, and rock and roll. Disco music usually consists of a singer, electric guitars, synthesizer keyboards, electric bass guitar, and a drummer or electronic drum machine. Disco music is often very simple music, with a strong beat and a strong "bass line". Disco music often has many electronic effects.
Disco dancing[change | change source]
Disco dancing is often sexually suggestive. When people go disco dancing, they usually wear tight trousers, leather shoes or boots, and glittery clothes. Women going disco dancing often wore tight clothes that revealed body parts such as their thighs or the upper part of their chest. Men going disco dancing often opened up the buttons of their shirts to show the upper part of their chest.
Disco clubs[change | change source]
Disco music is played at disco clubs. In the late 1970s, there were famous disco clubs such as Studio 54 in New York City. Disco clubs have a large dance floor and a large pa system. A Disk Jockey (or "DJ") plays records of disco music through powerful amplifiers with a number of high wattage speakers. Disco music was usually played very loud, with lots of low bass frequencies. Disco clubs usually had coloured lights that flashed with the music called scanners, and mirror balls with hundreds of small mirrors, that reflect light onto the dancers and all corners of the room.
Disco culture[change | change source]
Most people who went disco dancing at disco clubs drank alcohol such as champagne and rum. Many people consumed illegal drugs such as cocaine or marijuana, so that they would become intoxicated. People who went disco dancing often had many sexual relationships with people that they would meet at the disco club.
