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Discos, Dance, and Lyrics Sex
Disco and dance music synonymous with gay culture? That's their claim. Gay men in America think there is no art form that is more fitting pop synonymous with gay culture than disco and dance music. In a country George W. Bush there, in a bar or disco with a frenetic dance music, many gays openly express their sexual identity. To borrow the words of Simon Frith in the book Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock 'n' roll, disco music with a single bar, sexual mobility, pengelanaan heterosexual, the free weekend, and fantasies are mortal. What exactly this kind of music?Dance music or game music is composed especially for the dance social (social dancing). He emerged from three or four centuries ago-long before the birth of disco. In principle, the dance music includes many kinds of music, from waltzes to rock and roll and country music or tango. Until the late 1970s, for customers nightclub, dance music is more specific term referring to electronic music such as disco. Well, disco actually have strong roots in swing, samba, cha-cha, Mambo, Merengue, Foxtrot, and tango, also in a funk beats and rhythm and blues from the late 1960s until the early 1970s.In general, the difference between a disco or a number of dance and rock songs or pop songs in general: in the bass pounding dance music "four to the floor", at least once in a knock, while the bass beat of rock music on one and three.So how about the history of occurrence? Type of music has a long social history. First it was New York in the 1970s. America is being crowded by the Vietnam War that was soon over, broke down in domestic politics, and economics are no longer bright. The young rebel, making the atmosphere uncomfortable. At that moment the disco show for the first time, when people need an escape to remove kesumpekan, looking for excitement. In underground clubs in Manhattan, when it gets dark and the city lights lit, young children find paradise in the accompaniment of disco music. The marginalized in mainstream culture, Black and gay, was to channel his excitement there.Success instrumental Love's Theme by Love Unlimited Orchestra in 1974 (led by rhythm and blues musician Barry White) and a new song Do the Hustle (1975) by Van McCoy indicates the presence of a new voice, soft and foamy. And one of the basic characteristics of the disco was, however, the song itself is about the dance.The appearance of John Travolta in the movie Saturday Night Fever (1977) makes the disco fever spread to the entire planet Earth. Film music is fully worked out by the Bee Gees, with mainstay song Staying Alive, which tells about his hard life was then and how people seek escape through the dance.Once past that initial phase, disco phase, called post-classic disco in the early 1980s, which among others, marked by the emergence of Sharon Redd song called In the Name of Love (1982). After that period, show the flow of new wave pop music and punk rock.As indifferent to the lyrics of sex, young children dancing with the beat hot jerking. There are songs Gucci, You're Through (Pretty Girls) who talked about intercourse, about a girl who mock "sword" that guy is so tiny. There is a song We Want Some Pussy (2 Live Crew) that makes dancers hysterical. There is also I Want Your Sex (George Michael), which among other lyrical "I want sex with you ...".In the 1990s, disco re-emerged as a new genre called dance music. At the time of transplantation as already performed by Boney M. In the mid-1990s, the flow of new dance music is bustling again, along with the rapid recording technology. Musicians like Moby and Fatboy Slim featuring electronic music slips with the flow or industry.This is the electric, when they took the song to others, then mixes it (mix). Fatboy Slim, for example, gathering Bird of Prey by Jim Morrison of The Doors and compose a song that makes people dance to rock.Then known music faster like techno, house, drum 'n' beat, progressive, and jungle. Music like these that fill the dance floor later in the entire world, including Indonesia. Although already popular with many people, dance music still remains a symbol of the underground community. Subcultures that do not want to move in the mainstream