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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 28—Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series American Experience. The producer was pulled into the mix when ...

She had heard the Donna Summer songs, she had watched John Travolta ooze across a dance floor in “Saturday Night Fever” and she had amassed an impressive collection of 12-inch dance mixes. But in the ...

“The War on Disco,” a new PBS documentary, explores the backlash against the genre and the issues of race, gender and sexuality that informed it. By Chris Vognar The plan was simple enough: Gather a ...

A disco in 1977 – Photo: PBS Subscribe free to Metro Weekly’s digital magazine for the LGBTQ stories that matter most. Before the haters tried to dim all the lights on disco, it was the sound of a ...

What cultural conditions lead to a rock shock jock blowing up disco records and starting a riot at a ballpark? That is the question that "The War on Disco," the October 30 American Experience ...

Chicago-based hip-hop artist Ric Wilson is on a spiritual campaign to usher in a new era of disco music, one that’s primed for dance floors and rooted in Black radical traditions. The charismatic ...

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 ...

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, ...

American Experience’s “The War on Disco” airs at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. It will also stream on the PBS app. Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series ...