When the word disco comes up, a handful of acts usually get referenced, most notably Donna Summer, the Bee Gees and KC and the Sunshine Band. Sadly, Summer died in 2012 and two-thirds of the Bee Gees ...

Over the past few years for Black History Month, World Cafe has dug into different genres and their importance in the Black music canon over the decades. "What I'm talking about when I say dance music ...

Disco is a music genre and a subculture born out of a dance floor and pioneered by Black musicians, DJs and producers in the 1970s and early 1980s. The word disco comes from the Italian discoteca, ...

When the pandemic hit, and we were all trapped in our houses, pop divas the world over seemed to agree on one thing: it's time to dance, dammit. In the new Max documentary Love to Love You, Donna ...

David Burton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

She had heard the Donna Summer songs, she had watched John Travolta ooze across a dance floor in “Saturday Night Fever” and she had amassed an impressive collection of 12-inch dance mixes. But in the ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

When the word disco comes up, a handful of acts usually get referenced, most notably Donna Summer, the Bee Gees and KC & the Sunshine Band. Sadly, Summer died in 2012 and two-thirds of the Bee Gees ...