Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. Still, it wasn’t long before the subculture spread from clubs in New York and Philadelphia ...

Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...

PBS PREMIERES POWERFUL, REVISIONIST HISTORY OF POPULAR 1970s MUSIC IN “DISCO: SOUNDTRACK OF A REVOLUTION,” A THREE-PART DOCUSERIES IN SUMMER 2024 Series Shines Light on Disco’s Groovy Beginnings, ...

GLORIA GAYNOR: I started out singing jazz, singing top 40 in clubs, and between sets, disc jockeys would come in to play and I knew that was the next storm coming; I saw that we were going to be ...

Disco music’s time in the sun may have passed, but the legacy of “The Hustle,” a mega hit in the genre, lives on Alice George - Museums Correspondent On April 18, 1975, Van McCoy and the Soul City ...