About Disco Music

Mid-1970s disco

As it has become more popular and commercialised so the law has had to become stricter to reinforce the guidelines that citizens must obey. People have always listened to music as it is one of the best forms of freedom. It is a fantastic form of entertainment and has been a community tradition to gather in a group and listen to it. So-called rave psychologists say that the ideas of festivals in the open air is not new as if we looked back to the stone age we would find primitive tribes playing music and dancing in order to pray to the gods for sun, rain, good crops etc.

What wiki can say to us?
“Well-known mid-1970s disco performers included Abba, Boney M., Chic, Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Eruption, Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, the Village People, KC and The Sunshine Band, the Jackson 5, and Barry White. While performers and singers garnered the lion’s share of public attention, the behind-the-scenes producers played an important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the “disco sound”.[1] 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 mainstream popularity. While disco music declined in popularity in the early 1980s, it was an important influence on the development of the 1980s and 1990s electric dance music genres of house and techno.”

Before house music was introduced to England people had been going out to discotheques and rock-n-roll nights but as the 70’s came a new style of music was demanded. People wanted something synthetic and futuristic to listen to. There had been great influence from black music during the 70’s converting the funk into disco music. It was the black urban ghetto that the earliest forms of modern dance music were created from.