Was the attack on Disco racially motivated?

[Dzali OG]

They'll be doing it to R&B and Hip Hop in a minute

We gotta learn how to preserve our shyt

They tried hip hop but eminem failed.

Long as hip hop has that edge to it, cacs can't appropriate it.

Some of you brehs cosigning em being top 5 and all that other shyt nearly gave it to them tho.

 

[frush11]

Oh I only fukked with funk/soul/blues/jazz from that era

Disco didn't really have a signature sound really till the white crowd came in and it became mainstream.

Most of what you call Soul and Funk was played at Black "Disco" parties. Disco before 77 was just R&B, Soul, Jazz Funk, Funk, and Latin tunes that had a certain swing.

 

[seabreeze80]

Disco became so popular that it was the mainstream. It was all over the place and the only genre being promoted. There was no variety. Whites and gays took it over and it became watered down soulless form of pop music. Suffered the same fate as grunge. People were just sick of it.

 

[frush11]

Also add The O'jays - Love Train

That Philly sound was the backbone of real Black Disco.

 

[Emoryal]

The old heads said it, it wasn't just an attack on disco, it was an attack on black music altogether. See the contrast in the end of this era and the beginning of the reagan era with hair metal, machismo, hair bands, etc,.

Black people created disco though.

Created rock and roll too so

 

[frush11]

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

I still see some of the old Disco heads in their 50's still partying but to House music when I go out.

They still got the moves

 

[frush11]

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?

Luckily for Black House supporters like myself, there's still the small Underground House( or Soulful House) scene, that's almost exclusively Black. In cities like DC, Baltimore, Jersey, Philly, Chicago, NYC, Oakland,ATL, Detroit.

I've almost exclusively being partying to House for the past 2 years. And its been an amazing ride. No frills, no VIP nonsense, no dress to impress, no bottle service thing. Just a dj, a dance floor, people that wanna dance, and great music in drama free zone.


Video I took from a party I went to a couple of months ago.

 

[Ski Mask]

That was good.

Like the black usher said. They were allowed to come to the games for like 80 cents if they bring disco records but like in true fashion. People were bringing records of any black artist. Black usher said "these aren't disco."

Boss said well if its around that area just let them in.


Rioting and destruction followed suit after game one. Cacs rushing the field chanting "disco sucks!"

The black usher with the rock radio stations/sponsors shirt was accosted by rioters Chanting "disco sucks".

Why did they go to one of the few black people there chanting disco sucks at him??

They broke a Marvin Gaye record in his face.


Thousands of White kids burning records by black people.

Very peculiar

 

[MidniteJay]

It's been happening to house and techno.

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

Man... Wish I could go back in time to check the folks that said I was suspect for liking that genre.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The Disco Sucks! campaign in 1979 had racist and homophobic undertones – and, 30 years on, has proven to be a resolute failure

Back in the summer of 1979, the Detroit rock radio DJ Steve Dahl was so aggrieved that his beloved Stones and Zeppelin were being dropped from playlists in favour of Village People, Donna Summer and Chic, that he launched his "Disco sucks!" campaign. Dahl encouraged listeners to phone in their disco requests, which he would then destroy on air with explosive sound effects. "Midwesterners didn't want that intimidating [disco] style shoved down their throats," said Dahl.

What began as on-air mischief soon snowballed into an anti-disco movement. Joined by a failed rock guitarist called Steve Veek, Dahl took "Disco sucks!" public when Veek secured the use of Comiskey Park, the home of the Chicago White Sox that was owned by his father. In July 1979, Dahl announced that anyone in possession of a disco record would receive cheap entry to the next White Sox home game.


Instead of the usual 16,000 fans, an unprecedented 59,000 turned up. Joined by baseball fans, they proceeded to storm the pitch, where they smashed and burned their Bee Gees vinyl. "They wore Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath T-shirts," writes Knopper, then a 13-year-old disco-hater "smashed bottles on the ground, smoked God knows what and chanted their almighty rallying cry: 'Disco sucks'!"

If that's not enough to turn you into a disco fan, then I don't know what is. The unspoken subtext was obvious: disco music was for homosexuals and black people. Not only that, but, as Knopper notes, in the disco era "to make it with a lady a guy had to learn how to dance. And wear a fancy suit!"

It wasn't real concerns such as the threat of war or the loss of jobs that inspired this hate-fest, but something far more malevolent ingrained in rock fans' collective psyche. What should have been harmless insurrection became a demolition rally for hard-rocking, middle American, predominantly white dudes with dubious taste. "It's incredible that rock fans would actually riot for the right to hear REO Speedwagon and Foreigner," Knopper writes.

In the short term, this disco backlash worked. Records sales bolstered by disco's glory days of 1974 to the Saturday Night Fever-fuelled high of 1978 fell by 11% in 1979, and the major US record labels began to look elsewhere for cash cows: to hard rock, new wave and power-pop fluff.

But it was a pyrrhic victory. Disco spawned house music and the club scene and impacted upon the then-emerging hip-hop culture. In short, disco's influence is everywhere. Could you envisage such a thing happening today? Could you imagine thousands of knuckle-headed Nickelback fans protesting Madonna's latest album?

The Disco Sucks! campaign 30 years on | Ben Myers

 

[Jblaze204]

My uncle always said white people & gays ruined Disco

I saw this documentary recently. A cac stated that disco was black music that was played in black clubs. The gays wanted in but didn't feel comfortable in black clubs so they took it and made it part of their culture.

Neil Rodgers and other black artist do feel it was racially motivated. It sucks because alot of disco still slaps to this day, Chic everybody dance I was listening to I will survive on repeat for an hour


The disco sucks thing pissed me off but I think disco music was too soft/positive for America. Just like the soulful r&b we love is dead now.

This country is the devil's playground

 

[TEH]

Some disco is high quality but I mainly listen to R&B and folk rock from that era ...

 

[TEH]

Nile Rodgers song writing and guitar playing was pure fire in the 70s era.

fukk anyone hating on disco.





Nile's Stratocaster guitar is known as the hit maker

This sounds


And she’s beautiful

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Yes.

 

[Mensch Fontana]

short answer - yes
long answer - hell yes