Disco: Sex and Race in Seventies America (TRIH ep 439)
1974 · Resource
Music for sex, dancing, and watching the straight world go by… The explosion of Disco provides an extraordinary window into the tumultuous world of the 1970s, with its themes of sex, drugs, race and sexuality. By the start of the 1970s, America was a nation of dystopian gloom. The radical dream of the 1960’s had dissipated, with economic decline, Vietnam and Watergate polarising and disenchanting the public. Then, at a party in New York held by the DJ David Mancuso, something new was born:...
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Around 1974
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)