In the three-part docuseries Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution, now streaming on PBS, directors and producers Louise Lockwood and Shianne Brown follow the turn of the glitterball from the gay and ...
PBS PREMIERES POWERFUL, REVISIONIST HISTORY OF POPULAR 1970s MUSIC IN “DISCO: SOUNDTRACK OF A REVOLUTION,” A THREE-PART DOCUSERIES IN SUMMER 2024 Series Shines Light on Disco’s Groovy Beginnings, ...
Revolution” — the first two parts air at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday, June 7, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.4. The third part airs at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, channel 5.1. The three episodes are also ...
Disco! The very word hustles you back to the 1970s, the decade in which it was gloriously born in the loft parties and basement clubs of New York, where it blossomed into a national obsession and ...
Fifty years ago, I heard the future in a disco. It wasn't a psychic experience; it was the mixing of African-American, Latinx and LGBT communities that changed what the world was listening to forever.
There's a gold mine of vintage clips in "The Secret Disco Revolution," but Jamie Kastner's documentary tethers them to a strained thesis and a misfired package concept. There’s a gold mine of vintage ...
Singer-songwriter-producer Nona Hendryx was already a successful performer as a member of Labelle and a New York resident when the scene began to form. Labelle’s funky, raunchy 1975 hit song “Lady ...
More snarky than academic, Jamie Kastner’s Secret Disco Revolution begins with the thesis that disco was an underground movement orchestrated by the shadowy powers that be to liberate blacks, gays and ...