Disco+Music

Disco Music

Disco is a genre of dance music that originated in African American and Hispanic communities in the United States, especially New York City (late 1960s and early 1970s).

Musical influences include funk and soul music. It is characterized and associated typically with bright lights, dancing floors, disco balls, and loud, up-beat music. The disco sound has "soaring, often reverberated vocals over a steady "four-on-the-floor" beat, an eighth note (quaver) or sixteenth note (semi-quaver) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a prominent, syncopated electric bass line sometimes consisting of octaves." Strings, horns, electric pianos, and electric guitars create the background sound. Other instruments include orchestral instruments, such as the flute are used for solo melodies.

Well-known late 1970s disco performers included The Bee Gees, Amanda Lear, Donna Summer and The Jacksons. Many non-disco artists recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as //Saturday Night Fever// and //Thank God It's Friday// contributed to disco's rise in popularity. Popular Disco Songs:
 * ABBA - Dancing Queen
 * Bee Gees - Night Fever
 * The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men

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