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REWIND: A look back at the dance crazes of the 1970s

DALLAS — No matter your age or generation, you have probably experienced a popular dance craze. Regardless of era, history has shown that when the right moves get big enough, they are too much to ...
American Songwriter

3 One-Hit Wonders from the 1970s to Dance Along to

As popular music was exploding in the 1970s and new genres were bubbling up along with new bands to match the public's love affair with the radio and vinyl, there were also a number of singular ...
Seattle Weekly

Dance • Pilobolus When it began making dances in the 1970s, Pilobolus

Pilobolus When it began making dances in the 1970s, Pilobolus was like almost nothing else in the modern dance world. Here was a collection of guys who combined sport and gymnastics skills to create a ...
Indy Week

In Rennie Harris Funkedified, A Journey Through African American Dance Communities of the 1970s

Gotta have that funk, yo. Yale art historian, Robert Farris Thompson, in his 1983 work, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy, traces the origins of the word “funk” to the ...
American Songwriter

5 Tracks That Defined the Dance Music Scene of the 1970s: Donna Summer, ABBA & More

Ah, the 1970s: a time of free love, groovy tunes, and disco. Beneath glittering disco balls, youth of the time found sexual liberation, musical freedom, and pure, unadulterated fun as dance music ...
The New York Times

15 Songs That Shook New York’s Queer Dance Floors in the 1970s and ’80s

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Playlist During this fertile period the way revelers received dance music — and what was considered dance music — shifted as new kinds of spaces ...