This week we spend time to discuss disco, and this whole disco sucks movement that happened during 80's. Disco is popular during the middle 70s. Disco was used as a reaction by New York City's gays as well as blacks, Latinos and heterosexuals against both the domination of rock music and the demonisation of dance music by the counterculture during this period. Women embraced disco as well, and the music eventually expanded to several other popular groups of the time. Though disco had enjoyed several years of popularity, an anti-disco sentiment manifested itself, particularly in America. Many musicians and fans of a variety of rock music styles expressed strong disapproval of disco throughout the height of its popularity. Among these critics, the slogans "disco sucks" was common by the late 1970s and appeared in written form in places ranging from t-shits to graffiti. Opponents of disco said that the music is manufactured, and the lyrics are mean nothing at all.
July 12, 1979 became known as the day disco died, a promotional event with an anti-dico theme, between games at a white Sox doubleheader for disgruntled rock fans. During this event, which involved exploding disco records, the raucous crowd tore out seats and turf in the field and did lots of damage to the stadium. After this event, disco started to retreat from America. However, we can see after 1990, the disco start to resurgence, Madonna continued doing disco music in her 2008 release, "hard candy", but clearly took the homosexual part out of music.
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