Seventies Dancing
Intro: The dances of the seventies were all about disco music. Disco music features soaring vocals over a steady beat, an eighth note or sixteenth note hi-hat with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a syncopated bass line. During the seventies, disco clubs, which were very common, were filled with disco dancers. Common dance moves included “The Hustle,” “The Bump,” “YMCA,” and many others.
Detailed description of dance and the music: Disco dance is moving to music with your own style, while usually wearing disco-inspired clothing. Disco contains parts of funk, soul, pop, and salsa. In many disco tracks, strings, horns, electric pianos, and electric guitars make up a lush background to the other parts. The genre was created …show more content…
Tom Moulton, one of the pioneers of disco dance, is believed by some to have changed disco music to make it easier to dance to.
Famous people and eras associated with the dance: Performers and bands such as The Jacksons, Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, Amanda Lear, KC and the Sunshine Band, and Chic were examples of popular seventies groups. Films like Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It's Friday contributed to disco's rise in popularity. Disco only ever reached its peak during the seventies, and no other eras were really known for disco music.
Cultural relevance and significance: Many artists - even ones who weren’t originally disco artists - recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It's Friday contributed to disco's rise in popularity. Although disco was a worldwide phenomenon, its popularity declined greatly in the late 1970s. On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called "Disco Demolition Night" had shown that an angry protest against seventies dance and music had started in the United
Intro: The dances of the seventies were all about disco music. Disco music features soaring vocals over a steady beat, an eighth note or sixteenth note hi-hat with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a syncopated bass line. During the seventies, disco clubs, which were very common, were filled with disco dancers. Common dance moves included “The Hustle,” “The Bump,” “YMCA,” and many others.
Detailed description of dance and the music: Disco dance is moving to music with your own style, while usually wearing disco-inspired clothing. Disco contains parts of funk, soul, pop, and salsa. In many disco tracks, strings, horns, electric pianos, and electric guitars make up a lush background to the other parts. The genre was created …show more content…
Tom Moulton, one of the pioneers of disco dance, is believed by some to have changed disco music to make it easier to dance to.
Famous people and eras associated with the dance: Performers and bands such as The Jacksons, Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, Amanda Lear, KC and the Sunshine Band, and Chic were examples of popular seventies groups. Films like Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It's Friday contributed to disco's rise in popularity. Disco only ever reached its peak during the seventies, and no other eras were really known for disco music.
Cultural relevance and significance: Many artists - even ones who weren’t originally disco artists - recorded disco songs at the height of disco's popularity, and films such as Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It's Friday contributed to disco's rise in popularity. Although disco was a worldwide phenomenon, its popularity declined greatly in the late 1970s. On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called "Disco Demolition Night" had shown that an angry protest against seventies dance and music had started in the United