Was the attack on Disco racially motivated?

[Marc Spector]

its not as simple as "they hated black people"

a lot of you nikkas are forgetting or don't know that Black Music was popular with cacs too. It wasn't just black folk buying and listening to The Supremes, EW&F, The Temptations, Jacksons, Stevie, James Brown, etc.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

its not as simple as "they hated black people"

a lot of you nikkas are forgetting or don't know that Black Music was popular with cacs too. It wasn't just black folk buying and listening to The Supremes, EW&F, The Temptations, Jacksons, Stevie, James Brown, etc.

So and ? just because they were buying doesn't mean they liked black people.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Yes. It got real easy to make, you could make one hit disco record and disappear and white people REALLY wanted to restore the feeling. Disco being Black music was bad enough, but when every disco track turned into a gay anthem, everyone had enough. Everyone was catching strays too. You know you getting shytted on when they had days designed to NOT play your shyt like radio stations did with the Bee Gees.

that explains how country music came up big time in the mainstream after that. Everyone wanted to a be an alcoholic cowboy or a hardcore metal guy.


People hated disco music so much, when HIV /AIDS dropped, you had people thinking it was payback for all the funboy shyt

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Disco died before Hip Hop came along.

That's not true. The two coincided for most of the 70s. Hip hop didn't find a separate identity until DJ Hollywood started rhyming over the breakbeats

 

[Marc Spector]

So and ? just because they were buying doesn't mean they liked black people.

I never said they liked black people.

What I'm saying is that it doesn't make sense to assume cacs bushed a whole genre solely due to racism. As of the 70s, cacs had been enjoying black music a lot.

Cacs, in particular baby boomers, were the first generation to put their racism to the side enough to REALLY fukk with Black music. Theres a reason the birth of modern commercialized music starts with baby boomers.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

I never said they liked black people.

What I'm saying is that it doesn't make sense to assume cacs bushed a whole genre solely due to racism. As of the 70s, cacs had been enjoying black music a lot.

Cacs, in particular baby boomers, were the first generation to put their racism to the side enough to REALLY fukk with Black music. Theres a reason the birth of modern commercialized music starts with baby boomers.

I think the backlash for disco was because it got too big too fast and it because over saturated. Artists who weren't disco started making disco songs. Commercials were disco. Fashion was disco. It didn't help that it was viewed as the music of minorities and gays

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

I never said they liked black people.

What I'm saying is that it doesn't make sense to assume cacs bushed a whole genre solely due to racism. As of the 70s, cacs had been enjoying black music a lot.

Cacs, in particular baby boomers, were the first generation to put their racism to the side enough to REALLY fukk with Black music. Theres a reason the birth of modern commercialized music starts with baby boomers.

I am not putting it past racist. Especially in the decade after the 60s

I don't think racist all of sudden had a change of heart in the 70s with black culture.


When you say baby boomers what years are you talking about?

Cause cacs was jamming to jazz and swing in 1920s- 40s. Look at the success of Louie Armstrong.

If we wanna go further than that. The early white Methodist churches were shamed for biting off early black gospel music.

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[Tetsuo]

I doubt if black people fukked with disco like that

Yea they did, my uncle is damn near deaf now because of all the disco partying he did back in his day

 

[Mr. Negative]

nah, it wasn't racial.

You gotta remember, White People and the glitzy coked up 70s 80s fueled Disco. Bee Gees and Abba and Studio 54 and the like.

Disco was just the first musical genre to catch stray heat after the heavy mass social programming of the mid-70s, where you could easily get society to hate shyt, just by having some famous people say they hated shyt.

It caught like wildfire, and disco became the thing to hate.

Yeah I know it sounds like some tin foil conspiracy shyt, but that's really what it was.

 

[Unknown Poster]

This pisses me off. Totally ruining the fun vibe of music because you hate black people.

It's been happening to house and techno.

I've been speaking on it on this board for years.

 

[Unknown Poster]

So and ? just because they were buying doesn't mean they liked black people.

It's like this point gets completely lost on people.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

It's like this point gets completely lost on people.

How does it feel being a black artist in modern House dominated by non black people?

Especially since house has black roots. Do you feel lik an outsider in your own culture?

 

[AlainLocke]

That's not true. The two coincided for most of the 70s. Hip hop didn't find a separate identity until DJ Hollywood started rhyming over the breakbeats

Looping a breakbeat isn't Hip Hop music...

That's literally called Breakbeat...

The first formation of Hip Hop started in the 70s, but the creation of a Hip Hop music as a commericial artform instead of a breakbeat looped at block parties in NYC and on the radio started with Rappers Delight...which came out in 1979 on the tail end of Disco and is really an abbreration on how early Hip Hop sounded like when it became mass consumed.

Afrika Bambatta dropped his first album in 1983, Grandmaster Flash dropped in 1982, Whodini dropped in 1983...which sounded nothing like Disco but was Electro which coincided with Kraftwerk dropping their electronic albums during the mid to late 70s.

The 808 Electro-Funk sound is more of a true representation of what Hip Hop music initially sound like instead of a loop of Apache.

 

[ElectroMan]

I doubt if black people fukked with disco like that

 

[Unknown Poster]

How does it feel being a black artist in modern House dominated by non black people?

Especially since house has black roots. Do you feel lik an outsider in your own culture?

Hell no.
I feel like everyone else are the outsiders. And they really are.
But it's disheartening seeing how many black folks support black hip hop artists and r&b singers and the rest of them arent' supporting us like that....we need to reclaim the music and the art for the culture and the future. I ain't stoppintg