How Did Disco Change The World
“How Disco Changed the World”
Disco got its start when Djs at gay Manhattan dance clubs started spinning black music in the early 70s. With such obvious homosexual and black roots, it is no wonder that, considering the time of its emergence in the mid 1970s, less than a decade removed from the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and only a few years after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 and the Stonewall riots in 1969, faced a hearty opposition from some Americans.
On the warm summer night of July 120, 1979, what would have otherwise been a typical baseball game turned into an all-out violent riot. After gaining rapid popularity in America, disco music faced a backlash, mostly from rock music fans. Steve Dahl, a local Chicago radio …show more content…
Disco’s popularity was largely dependent on the disco diva’s presence and in 1974, Gloria Gaynor released her own rendition of the Jackson 5 classic, “Never Can Say Goodbye”, a funky step-up from the original. The single was a hit. Later that year, it became the first song to reach the top of Billboard’s recently introduced “Disco Action” chart. A month later, it had reacher number nine on Billboard’s Top 100. She was then dubbed the “Queen of the Discos” in 1975, by the National Association of Discotheque Disc Jockeys. Four years later, she returned to the public eye with her release of “I Will Survive”, perhaps her most recognizable track. Gloria Gaynor’s rise to fame helped popularize the disco diva, and during the years in which she was most active, disco had established its status as a decadent form of entertainment where divas and dancers could dance liberally, disregard all inhibitions and express desire and ecstasy (Lawrence, …show more content…
Sponsored by 97.9 WLUP-FM, he heads a promotion that allows anybody who turns in a disco record to pay the nearly free admission of $0.98. Hoping for a crowd of 20,000 people, the owner, Bill Veeck hires security for 35,000, despite expressing concern about the outcome of the promotion. Fearing it would turn into a disaster, he had checked himself out of the hospital he was staying at and attended the game. After receiving reports that thousands were trying to enter the stadium without a ticket, he directed the security around the field to the gates to provide back-up. The field, now unattended, was showered with records as fans began throwing LPs from their seats, nearly hitting players as they whizzed by, lodging themselves in the field. The records were all supposed to have been turned in, but after the deposit box overflowed, fans brought them to their seats. Outside the stadium, people have begun creating their own bonfires which they use to burn records. The game ended at 8:16 PM. Less than 30 minutes later, Daryl Dahl, dressed in an army uniform, entered the field. After parading the field several times in a jeep, he made his way to centre field, where the box holding the collected records sat. Warming up the crowd by enticing them into a “Disco sucks!” chant, Dahl made the announcement that he would blow up all
Disco got its start when Djs at gay Manhattan dance clubs started spinning black music in the early 70s. With such obvious homosexual and black roots, it is no wonder that, considering the time of its emergence in the mid 1970s, less than a decade removed from the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and only a few years after the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 and the Stonewall riots in 1969, faced a hearty opposition from some Americans.
On the warm summer night of July 120, 1979, what would have otherwise been a typical baseball game turned into an all-out violent riot. After gaining rapid popularity in America, disco music faced a backlash, mostly from rock music fans. Steve Dahl, a local Chicago radio …show more content…
Disco’s popularity was largely dependent on the disco diva’s presence and in 1974, Gloria Gaynor released her own rendition of the Jackson 5 classic, “Never Can Say Goodbye”, a funky step-up from the original. The single was a hit. Later that year, it became the first song to reach the top of Billboard’s recently introduced “Disco Action” chart. A month later, it had reacher number nine on Billboard’s Top 100. She was then dubbed the “Queen of the Discos” in 1975, by the National Association of Discotheque Disc Jockeys. Four years later, she returned to the public eye with her release of “I Will Survive”, perhaps her most recognizable track. Gloria Gaynor’s rise to fame helped popularize the disco diva, and during the years in which she was most active, disco had established its status as a decadent form of entertainment where divas and dancers could dance liberally, disregard all inhibitions and express desire and ecstasy (Lawrence, …show more content…
Sponsored by 97.9 WLUP-FM, he heads a promotion that allows anybody who turns in a disco record to pay the nearly free admission of $0.98. Hoping for a crowd of 20,000 people, the owner, Bill Veeck hires security for 35,000, despite expressing concern about the outcome of the promotion. Fearing it would turn into a disaster, he had checked himself out of the hospital he was staying at and attended the game. After receiving reports that thousands were trying to enter the stadium without a ticket, he directed the security around the field to the gates to provide back-up. The field, now unattended, was showered with records as fans began throwing LPs from their seats, nearly hitting players as they whizzed by, lodging themselves in the field. The records were all supposed to have been turned in, but after the deposit box overflowed, fans brought them to their seats. Outside the stadium, people have begun creating their own bonfires which they use to burn records. The game ended at 8:16 PM. Less than 30 minutes later, Daryl Dahl, dressed in an army uniform, entered the field. After parading the field several times in a jeep, he made his way to centre field, where the box holding the collected records sat. Warming up the crowd by enticing them into a “Disco sucks!” chant, Dahl made the announcement that he would blow up all