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Disco

Disco is a music genre and subculture that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene. Disco started as a mélange of music from venues popular with African Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Italian Americans, LGBT people, and psychedelic hippies in Philadelphia and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco can be seen as a reaction to both the dominance of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. Several dance styles were also developed during this time, including the Bump and the Hustle.
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  • Production 

  • Disco club culture 

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  • Motown 

  • Euro disco 

  • Legacy