Disco music evolved in clubs , australian casinos and bars between the 1960s and 1970s. It incorporates elements from various musical customs, such as soul, groove, Motown, and even meringue and salsa. This is dancing music, and it paved the way for club music, electronica, and hip-hop in the 1990s and far beyond. The phrase disco is derived from the French term discotheque, which was used to define the dance clubs and bars popular in the 1960s and 1970s.

Disco gave birth to quite a number of dances, such as the Bump, Hustle, and the YMCA. The latter was promoted by the Village People, among the first gay men’s group singers to have a song on the contemporary music charts.

Disco Music Styles

Initially, disco music was just a nightclub regular feature, with disc jockeys mixing and playing songs such as KC’s “Get Down Tonight” Gloria Gaynor’s “Never Can Say Goodbye” and others. Those songs, however, inevitably found their way onto the radio and into the popular music arena.

Disco Music History

Initially, disco was all about the vocalists and the structures. Afterward, the tempo of this music increased, the time it played increased, and tunes from other styles, such as groove, were incorporated. By the 1970s, disco music had taken over the mainstream, with songs like “If I Can’t Have You” sung by Yvonne Elliman, and afterward, the Bee Gees’ “More Than A Woman,” started becoming popular.

Soon after, disco music was also found in movies, most particularly in 1977’s “Saturday Night Fever,” featuring a youthful John Travolta being a disco casino enligne france player attempting to succeed in his passion. Disco also became famous when disco music was recorded by more popular rock and pop artists such as Kiss, Cher, and Rod Stewart. Disco music’s popularity had waned by the 1980s, but it made a brief rebound in the 1990s.

The Legacy of Disco Music

Even though its fame was limited in comparison to other styles of today’s mainstream music, disco generated many iconic songs, some by singers who branched into other types of music, such as The Rolling Stones, and others by vocalists and pop artists whose professions and musical heritage were restricted to the disco times, such as the BeeGees and Donna Summer.