Disco
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“Its not dead! Its just in a state of sleep, forever.”
~ Oscar Wilde on Disco
Disco vocalist Grace Jones, whose powerful body and tooth-filled vagina simultaneously aroused and frightened white American men. Due to the amount of cocaine that was snorted off of her flawless black breasts and rock-hard ass in the 1970s, the DEA considered her genitals drug paraphernalia until 1982.
Disco is the name of a social, artistic and political movement that, beginning in New York City in the early 1970s, heavily influenced American and Mongolian popular culture through that decade. Although some cultural historians have cited the rise of the New-Wave musical movement - in particular pin-pointing the 1981 release of Blondie's "Debbie Harry is Easy" - as signaling the end of disco, December 23rd, 1980, is the generally accepted date of the "death of disco," when President-Elect Ronald Regan ended the movement by an executive decision to execute the BeeGees, and detaining Donna Summers, Gloria Gaynor and Chic .
The movement is identified by dance music featuring funk, soul music, salsa and reggae influences, with soaring vocals over a steady four-on-the-floor beat, hot, impressionable east-coast girls with a low threshold for becoming a human toilet, and shitloads of blow snorted off of any level surface, especially the black, oiled ass of an ankle-grabbing Grace Jones.
[edit] History
The rise of disco did not result from a single event but, rather, the confluence of many factors, including a 1971 bumper crop of the Columbian coca plant, which flooded the market with cheap but still bomb-ass cocaine (leading to New York's infamous "White Summer," during which, among other things, the Statue of Liberty was repainted twice), the continued growth of the Hippie movement in response to Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, the development of the ribbed condom, Roe vs. Wade, the successful separation of conjoined triplets Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, and the otherwise confusing invention of the Disco Ball.
The globalization of music around this period, and the impulse for socialization, fornication and blowing-your-fucking-mind-ization, found expression in a thriving disco club scene that developed in many US cities through the mid- and late 70's. These discotheques, nightclubs, and private loft parties were places where DJs would play disco hits through powerful PA systems for the dancers. The DJs played "...a smooth mix of long single records to keep people 'dancing and fucking all night long'". Some of the most prestigious clubs had elaborate lighting systems that throbbed to the beat of the music, as well as staff "fluffers", who dealt with a different sort of throbbing.
[edit] Jimmy Carter and Studio 54
One of the most famous events in the history of disco occurred in 1976, when newly elected president Jimmy Carter celebrated his inauguration at prominent New York nightclub Studio 54. While Jimmy Carter and Dennis Hopper were riding David Bowie like a tandem bike on the disco floor, socialite Claudia Cohen, wearing nothing but a saddle and bridle, kicked over an open-flame grill that was cooking batches of cocaine in aluminum dishes, causing a fire that rapidly spread to engulf the club, killing fifteen people and destroying $2.6 million in product.
The subsequent two-year Congressional investigation paralyzed the Carter administration, and contributed to his defeat by Ronald Reagan four years later. The fire also inspired the song Disco Inferno by The Trammps, which peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
