[NARAS] introduced a dedicated Best Disco Recording category. Then it never handed out the award again...
more.
thesmithian-blog reblogged
Donna Summer
[look of the hour]
'...They say MTV saved the music business. One could argue quite strongly it killed it. As for the excoriated disco that killed rock...'
...Yes, all the beats of EDM started in disco. Disco was made by a marginalized group who lived to party...And punk and new wave were experimental and vital sub-genres of rock...But everyone in the game knew you could get rich if you had a hit...Now you just can’t get that rich playing music...So Reagan lowers the tax rates in the eighties and...incomes start to diverge...record execs don’t want to be on the wrong side of the divide. They no longer care about music, they just want money. The acts are disposable. It devolves into formula...
more at TLL.
Studio 54 opened on this day in 1977.
...disco culture acted as a staging ground for the sexual revolution of the 1970s and empowered African Americans, women and gays—the cultural "Other" who were its primary makers and its initial consumers...