
Reebee Garofalo
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Emeritus Professor of American Studies, University of Massachsetts, Boston. Author of Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA; editor of Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements.
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Disco, beat-driven style of popular music that is one of the preeminent forms of dance music. Its name derives from discotheque, the French word for a type of dance-oriented nightclub that first appeared in the 1960s. Disco provided the musical accompaniment for political movements of the 1970s, in…
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