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    This document provides an overview of disco music and culture, including its origins in 1970s dance clubs playing records instead of live bands, prominent deejays that helped popularize hit songs, and two famous disco artists - the Bee Gees and Boney M. The Bee Gees were a pop and disco group formed by three British brothers who found success in the late 1960s/early 1970s and again in the late 1970s disco era. Boney M. was a German-Caribbean group created by Frank Farian that specialized in disco and funk in the 1970s, producing classic songs like "Gotta Go Home" and "Rasputin".

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    This document provides an overview of disco music and culture, including its origins in 1970s dance clubs playing records instead of live bands, prominent deejays that helped popularize hit songs, and two famous disco artists - the Bee Gees and Boney M. The Bee Gees were a pop and disco group formed by three British brothers who found success in the late 1960s/early 1970s and again in the late 1970s disco era. Boney M. was a German-Caribbean group created by Frank Farian that specialized in disco and funk in the 1970s, producing classic songs like "Gotta Go Home" and "Rasputin".

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    This document provides an overview of disco music and culture, including its origins in 1970s dance clubs playing records instead of live bands, prominent deejays that helped popularize hit songs, and two famous disco artists - the Bee Gees and Boney M. The Bee Gees were a pop and disco group formed by three British brothers who found success in the late 1960s/early 1970s and again in the late 1970s disco era. Boney M. was a German-Caribbean group created by Frank Farian that specialized in disco and funk in the 1970s, producing classic songs like "Gotta Go Home" and "Rasputin".

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    Disco Research

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    TEJONES, Ky Kiske C.
    This document provides an overview of disco music and culture, including its origins in 1970s dance clubs playing records instead of live bands, prominent deejays that helped popularize hit songs, and two famous disco artists - the Bee Gees and Boney M. The Bee Gees were a pop and disco group formed by three British brothers who found success in the late 1960s/early 1970s and again in the late 1970s disco era. Boney M. was a German-Caribbean group created by Frank Farian that specialized in disco and funk in the 1970s, producing classic songs like "Gotta Go Home" and "Rasputin".

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    General Description:

    Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States'
    urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string
    sections, brass and horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars. The term "disco" is
    shorthand for the word discothèque, a French word for "library of phonograph records" derived from
    "bibliothèque".

    History/ Origin:

    Disco was mostly developed from music that was popular on the dance floor in clubs that started playing
    records instead of having a live band. The first discotheques mostly played swing music. Later on
    uptempo rhythm and blues became popular in American clubs and northern soul and glam rock records
    in the UK. In the early 1940s, nightclubs in Paris resorted to playing jazz records during the Nazi
    occupation.

    Initially ignored by radio, disco received its first significant exposure in deejay-based underground clubs
    that catered to black, gay, and Latino dancers. Deejays were a major creative force for disco, helping to
    establish hit songs and encouraging a focus on singles

    Régine Zylberberg claimed to have started the first discotheque and to have been the first club DJ in
    1953 in the "Whisky à Go-Go" in Paris. She installed a dance floor with coloured lights and two
    turntables so she could play records without having a gap in the music.

    Famous Artists:

    THEE BEE GEES

    The Bee Gees, originally made up of three brothers: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb, have
    been successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music. They had two distinct periods of
    exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a foremost act of the disco
    music era in the late 1970s

    The Gibb brothers were born on the Isle of Man, UK to English parents. The family returned to father
    Hugh Gibb's home town of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England in the early 1950s where the boys
    began to sing in harmony, debuting in public on one memorable occasion at a local cinema. The boys
    were going to lip sync to a record, which other children had done at the cinema in previous weeks.
    However, on the way to the cinema, the record was dropped and broken. As a result, the brothers got
    on stage and sang themselves. They got a very good response from the crowd, which convinced them
    that singing was what they wanted to do with their lives.

    BONEY M.
    Boney M. was a German-Caribbean vocal group that specialized in disco and funk created by German
    record producer Frank Farian, who was the group's primary songwriter. Originally based in West
    Germany, the four original members of the group's official line-up were Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett
    from Jamaica, Maizie Williams from Montserrat, and Bobby Farrell from Aruba. The group was formed in
    1976 and achieved popularity during the disco era of the late 1970s. Since the 1980s, various line-ups of
    the band have performed with differing personnel. They have produced classic disco songs like “Gotta
    go home”, “Rivers of Babylon”, and an all time great “Rasputin”.

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