Disco Demolition--and the anti-disco movement in general--definitely had a reactionary element.

In many ways, disco represented the Post-WWII dissipation of patriarchal values and the redefinition of masculinity in terms of aesthetics rather than production. Certainly this idea undergirds Saturday Night Fever, which maps the cultural break of a working-class ethnic youth from the traditional mores of his childhood and his embrace of the feminine/feminized world of disco/dance. The radical cultural change underlying Saturday Night Fever sprang from deindustrialization, the collapse of domestic industrial employment, the growing ubiquity of white collar labor, and the incipient hegemony of consumer culture.

The reaction against disco--and the insistence on returning to the aesthetic and underlying values of "classic" rock--represented a refusal to accept shifting definitions of gender roles in a rapidly changing society.

It's funny reading these pieces written by people who have no clue and are trying to spin a bullshit narrative.

I am the exact Coho Lips demographic and I assure you, "Disco Sucks" was not an anti-gay or anti-black/Latino movement.

Dahl was pissed because he lost his job. Chicago middle and working class kids who liked rock were annoyed because their girlfriends were dragging them to dance clubs.

All this latter day analysis is reading something in that wasn't there.

:lol: So.... white people didn’t like disco then ?

White people like Lady Gaga and Beyonce, too. I myself happen to love the '90s descendants of disco. But disco was not a province of straight-white-male culture the same way, I dunno, Styx was.

Mac and Parkins are having the Vice author on now

I'm gonna say 99% of those who ever wore a black Loop t-shirt never heard of Frankie Knuckles and have no idea what house music is even to this day, let alone in 1979.

Certainly sounds like a beta with male vocal fry.

Certainly sounds like a beta with male vocal fry.

Mac is destroying this kid

After Mac made his points the author said it was not his intent to paint everyone there as a racist homophobe. However, he never said that in his article. He did say, though, among other daming things:

While Dahl has vehemently denied it as merely a harmless stunt, its execution was racist and homophobic.

Dahl, for his part, will tell you that there was nothing racist or homophobic about a bunch of white people burning records by artists from marginalized communities, no sir.

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The Bee Gees were from the west side of Australia .