Disco music ruled the charts from 1973 to 1979 with slick songs that were catchy, mindless, and self-indulgent. But aside from its musical impact, disco was a driving force of social change for gays, ...

HOT STUFF: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, by Alice Echols Disco snuck up on America like a covert operation. This wasn't how it had been in the '60s, when shifts in popular music - the ...

WASHINGTON — You’ve probably at some point described something as ”deader than disco,” and it’s true that light-up dance floors and white suits for men are pretty rare these days. But Alice Echols ...

Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize ...