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, ...

I'm a Wilmington native, born at Community Hospital in December 1960. I've got many fond memories here, starting with growing up in the area known as "East Wilmington," consisting of Maids Avenue, ...

There are five Bad Boys from Boston, but only one Bad Girl. Boston native Donna Summer — who lost her battle with cancer yesterday — was the ’70s flip side to Aerosmith’s rock ’n’ roll. In a decade ...

HOT STUFF: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture, by Alice Echols. W.W. Norton & Co., 338 pp., $26.95. Tuning into PBS one recent Saturday evening, I came across a program called "Get Down ...

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 ...

While disco remains one of the most maligned of all musical genres (according to Andriote, as much for its roots in African-American, Latino and gay dance clubs as for its hedonistic packaging), it is ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Alex Hairston has a gift for portraying singers. In the touring company of “Motown: The Musical,” she was Florence Ballard — a ...

Before American Hustle became a holiday hit, Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick plundered the sounds of the 1970s in the hilarious off-Broadway musical Disaster! This wacky parody of disaster flicks is ...

Recently, I attended a wedding reception during which a 10-year-old boy, to entertain the adults on the dance floor, started making the point-to-the-sky motion that John Travolta patented in 1977’s ...

Nobody hates disco like they used to, said Melissa Anderson in Newsday. Thirty-one years after Chicago’s Comiskey Park entertained spectators by blowing up a mountain of disco records, there’s hardly ...

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