Disco

Disco is a music genre in the 1970s. It is usually classed as a form of rhythm and blues and club/dance music. Explore its 5 subgenres, key artists and related styles.

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Disco Sting (ISRC USUAN1100363)

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Stringed Disco (ISRC USUAN1100059)

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Ether Disco (ISRC USUAN1100237)

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About Disco

Disco is a music genre in the 1970s. It is usually classed as a form of rhythm and blues and club/dance music.

Among the best-known names in the style are Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, ABBA, Valery Leontiev, Cher and Prince.

Disco has given rise to 5 subgenres on this site, such as Eurodisco, Nu-disco, Cosmic disco and Electro-disco.

From Wikipedia

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric pianos, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars.

Discothèques as a venue were mostly a French invention, imported to the United States with the opening of Le Club, a members-only restaurant and nightclub located at 416 East 55th Street in Manhattan, by French expatriate Olivier Coquelin, on New Year's Eve 1960.