Word: discos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RECORDING industry continues to sweat over the fortunes of disco, new wave, "power pop" and various other products of the late 1970s, a few of rock's relics, stumbling awkwardly in the background, dodge extinction and rumble...
...someone's shovel blade would strike an unexploded bomb; mostly the air in the '70s was thick with a sense of aftermath, of public passions spent and consciences bewildered. The American gaze turned inward. It distracted itself with diversions trivial or squalid: primal screaming, disaster movies, jogging, disco, Perrier water, pornography. The U.S. lost a President and a war, and not only endured those unique humiliations with grace, but showed enough resilience to bring a Roman-candle burst of spirit to its Bicentennial celebrations...