Word: discoing
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...could not just say it and make it so. There was a cultural and musical divide to cross that seemed as wide as the Caribbean Sea, and not nearly as warm or inviting. Marley's bandmate, Peter Tosh, once complained to Oui magazine "The devil created disco, telling black people to 'get down get down' all the time. But I man seh to black people 'Get up stand up for your rights...
...originally emerged as a light-hearted alternative discourse in the aesthetic lives of black and Latino poor in the 1970s and 1980s Bronx. Hip-hop built on existing disco, reggae and funk genres and served as a creative outlet for those youth who maintained a zeal for life, despite trickle-down economics that never quite trickled down to the bottom. Contrary to the elitist posturing of many “real hip-hop heads,” the first rap songs were not about the problems of ghetto life, but instead were composed of nonsensical rhyming about fun and love...
...Exit Argentinean police arrested the owner of a nightclub in downtown Buenos Aires after a blaze killed at least 175 and injured more than 700. Interior Minister Aníbal Fernández said that four of the disco's six doors had been wired shut, snaring the mostly young clubgoers in what he called "a mortal trap." Fernandez also warned that the death toll was likely to rise. Thousands of people, many in their teens and 20s, had packed into the Cromagnon Republic disco to celebrate the end of the school year. The Argentinean rock band Los Callejeros...
...Breaking the Last Thread” both follow “Emergence” with messages about making the most of life. “Oh, Come On...” stresses the importance of group unity with a six-person cast, a strong disco beat, and innovative choreography. “Breaking the Last Thread,” a solo performance by Marin J.D. Orlosky ’07, tells the story of a woman struggling to survive despite great odds. Her graceful movements reflect the passion of the heroine of Tori Amos?...
...lured the curious to the burgeoning genre of hard-core. It seemed as if these two types of films might meet--that cinema might learn to depict the ordinary, universal and melodramatic collision of two bodies, two souls, in bed. But those days, and those hopes, are deader than disco. Hollywood's erotic audacity and artistic pretensions have shriveled ever since...