Was disco a fad, a cultural trend, an era-defining musical genre — or all of the above? Whatever the case, there's no denying that there are some disco songs that, as soon as those opening notes kick ...

But some 50 years later, disco is finally getting the respect it deserves. Vintage dance tracks can be heard in supermarkets, ...

Disco! The very word hustles you back to the 1970s, the decade in which it was gloriously born in the loft parties and basement clubs of New York, where it blossomed into a national obsession and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If someone says they're not a fan of 70s disco songs, there's a good chance they're not being truthful. Despite the backlash the ...

Disco gets a bad rap. The popular musical genre from the 1970s, which was born of a diverse group of dancers and singers in city club scenes, was pigeonholed to be some vapid, whitewashed sound. But ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Disco is a genre of music that people seem to feel passionately ...

Disco music was one of the predominant forms of pop music in the 1970s. While subsequent generations made disco songs, the genre never again reached the same level of cultural saturation it did during ...

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, ...

There was once an indelible tension between rock and disco, culminating in a so-called "disco demolition" night in 1979 that devolved into a riot. As the decades have rolled past, however, much of ...

What do we mean by “dance songs”? Good question. In a sense, any song that ever got any one person moving in any perceptible direction is a dance song. The Beatles made great dance songs — as did ...