Silent Disco

The term disco often brings to mind, images of polyester suits, coordinated choreography and flashy disco balls. John Badham’s 1977 cinematic classic Saturday Night Fever capitalized on those images to help mainstream society relate to this growing subculture. John Travolta’s portrayal of Tony Manero, a down on his luck heterosexual male, who uses disco as a means of escape from his everyday life, helps to demonstrate Hollywood’s encroachment on this growing cultural phenomenon. What Badham’s

compiled by mostly Caucasian artist compared to the past where it was conceived by blacks to prompt their practices and beliefs. Disco is a genre of dance music that gained its popularity during the middle to late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the early 1970s. Disco was used as a reaction by New York City's blacks as well

Ever since I was a young kid, I was extremely fond of music. Music was all around me: on the television, in school, at the store, and especially in the car. Not only did I love to listen to music, but I loved to play it as well. I am not saying I was any good at playing music, because I was not. But to a young child, hitting their hand on anything could be music, and to me it definitely was. As a child, I was exposed to rock music and oldies. However, I grew up in Prince George's county, so I

situation and respond so effectively. In my wildest dreams I never imagined my three-mile power walk would be interrupted quite like it was. On this particular day, I was at the halfway point of my walk. My heart was pumping pretty good while 70s disco music blared through my earbuds. The music was so loud that I’m surprised I heard the crash! As I quickly scanned my surroundings, I saw a man lying on the grass with an overturned riding lawn mower nearby. Instinctively I knew that this was the source

stayed on the Billboard 100 number one for mere two weeks. Gonna Make You Sweat, or also known as Everybody Dance Now, is a song by C+C Music Factory. This song is comprised of two components, the rap and vocal, performed by Freedom Williams and disco/house artist Martha Wash. After it was released in December 1990, it was considered a worldwide smash and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in February 1991. This song was also number one on Billboard’s Top R&B Singles and on

A vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. This the definition of “music”; music is an art that can be generated by anyone and everyone. When you hear something or feel something that clicks in your brain so much that you can remember it and turn that little echo of sound into something radically different that is breathtaking and true art. Some people can completely make a beat into something new and something you have

Hip-hop is one that has evolved in the free improvisational culture is vibrant in the 1980s dance, a form of music among blacks in the United States of the slums of New York in the 1970s. So hip-hop is also referred to as the expressionism of black. Hip in the hip-hop (Hip) refers to a new generation who are familiar with the slang, fashion of the times that points to the "ass", total (Hop) means "dance" or ball in the sense that shake. And try to synthesize these two words hip-hop, dance, be in

Twenty One Pilots my all time favorite band. The band was formed in Columbus, Ohio in 2009 by Taylor Joseph, alone with Nick Thomas and Chris Salih, who eventually left in 2011, and currently consists of lead vocalist and keyboardist Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun. The First Song that I heard was Car Radio, at first i thought it was a really catchy song but I never really thought what the song had said or meant. Once I really listened to the song I started to listen to more of there songs.

40 years ago Ian Schaeger converted a New York City music hall into the hottest disco in the world and the entertainment industry would never be the same. It was Studio 54 a decadent place where mega celebs like Michael Jackson and Cher would party with writers, street kids and drag queens alongside Wall Street tycoons. It was a place that brought a diverse crowd together who had one thing in common, the love of disco music and the party. 40 years later he has done it again. The Edition Brand brings

in-depth discussion and look at the development of disco in its distinct forms throughout the 1970s. The decade where, as David Brackett the author describes an underground phenomenon, that grew and morphed into the most popular music throughout the decade. There were three very distinct occurrences during the 1970s, as described in the piece. One, a musical style, two, a performance site and three, a musical fandom or participation all made up disco during the height of the 1970s. This was very different