Disco
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Disco is a style of pop music that was popular in the mid-1970s. Disco music has a strong beat that people can dance to. People usally dance to disco music it 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 it most popular in the United States and Europe in the 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.
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[edit] Disco music
Disco music blends pop music with funk music, soul music, 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.
[edit] Disco dancing
Disco dancing is often sexually suggestive. When people go disco dancing, they usually wear tight pants, 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.
[edit] Disco clubs
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 sound system. A Disk Jockey (or "DJ") plays records of disco music through a powerful electronic amplifier with several big loudspeakers. Disco music was usually played very loud, with lots of low bass tone. Disco clubs usually had coloured lights that flashed with the music, and mirrored "disco balls" with hundreds of mirrors, that reflected light onto the dancers.
[edit] Disco culture
Most people who went disco dancing at disco clubs drank alcohol such as champagne and rum. Some 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.
