Bee Gees

orchestral instrumentation and simplistic, repeating lyrics concerned with dancing, sex and love. Disco reached the height of its exposure after the release of the film Saturday Night Fever in 1977, during which time white disco artists like The Bee Gees also gained prevalence and Studio 54 opened. Though disco was commercially popular, these phenomena meant the genre had a near-equal number of protesters to its proponents. Saturday Night Fever, which focused on white, heterosexual dancers,…

Music in the Digital Era Music is an art that has existed for thousands of years, and over that vast amount of time, music has evolved. From the Medieval period to the classical, and from the modern to the present era, music has slowly become more and more affiliated with technological industry, including computers and even some smart phones. In today’s style of music, most often the elements and instruments being used are actually not instruments at all, but digital sounds created by a…

The 1970’s was a strange and growing time. Music continued to explode with new genres of music such as disco, hip-hop, punk rock, and heavy metal. Some bands and music artist that emerged popular in the 70’s were David Bowie, the Bee Gees, Queen, James Brown, as well as Creedence Clearwater Revival (Peoples Hist.). The fashion was an ever changing thing of the 70’s. Some fashion trends that occurred in the 70’s were bellbottoms, tie dye shirts, flower power, and mod clothing. It was quite the…