When we think of changing music scenes, we often think of clean breaks during a new year or a new decade. But that’s not exactly how it works. Genres evolve and often blend into one another, as is the ...
It’s a flashback to the 1980s. Put on your tie-dye T-shirt and your extra-long leggings, get your endurance up with some home workout tapes and let’s get ready to dance. Yes, the decade, known for ...
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, ...
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 ...
Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 became a bestseller again, slotting right into the nightmarish dystopia it had predicted. As ...