Pbs documentary on disco era premiers tonight 6-18-2024

[milven]

PBS tackles the surprising and overlooked history of disco – the preeminent popular music of the 1970s – in a three-part series, DISCO: SOUNDTRACK OF A REVOLUTION.

The docuseries captures the story of disco: its rise, its fall, and its legacy. From the basement bars of ‘70s New York City to the peak of the global charts, along with iconic tracks and remarkable footage, DISCO: SOUNDTRACK OF A REVOLUTION offers a powerful, revisionist history of the disco age. Told by the original musicians, promoters, and innovators – as well as modern-day musical icons – this series will premiere Tuesday, June 18 on PBS [[check local listings), PBS.org, and the PBS App.

Disco embodied the height of 1970s glamour: a dance floor culture born in New York City that went on to take over the world. But its success also obscured its wider significance. Inextricably bound up with the major liberation movements of the 1970s, disco speaks to some of the biggest issues of today: LGBTQ+ identity and female empowerment.

DISCO: SOUNDTRACK OF A REVOLUTION also underscores disco’s survival. Co-opted by the commercial mainstream, the genre dominated and flooded the market – the airwaves and record shops – leading to a subsequent hate-fueled backlash. As a result, the music and its ethos went back underground, where it evolved into an electronic dance sound that laid the foundations for contemporary dance culture.

Full article here
https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/disco-soundtrack-of-a-revolution/

[Boogiedown]

holy cow, they're getting it right!! :cool::D

[Boogiedown]

only caught the last bit of this 2nd edition.

Two comments .....could care less what anyone on this program under the age of sixty-five has to say with their scholarly, so-called expertise [they weren't there, so they don't know sh*t] .... as they fake to reflect.

2] was waiting for this:
the revisionists cheap shot that white males single-handedly ruined disco. Could make a long list of all the white males that made disco all that it was as much as any other sub-group.

Let's start with Tom Moulton, who they should be quoting a lot more in this since they're blessed to have him, as he is 80 per cent the driving force behind the success of disco.