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Vaughan Mason, the musician and producer whose influential disco-funk singles — most notably his 1980 roller skating anthem “Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll” — have been sampled by dozens of artists ranging ...

Recent books by Tim Lawrence and Douglas Crimp underline the close relationship between the New York art scene of the 1970s and '80s and that most unjustly maligned of musical movements, disco. In ...

Year Zero was 1969, when DJ Francis Grasso began playing records at New York club The Sanctuary, the night spot which filled the space created by the closure of the proto-disco Salvation. Stringing ...

Chicago-based hip-hop artist Ric Wilson is on a spiritual campaign to usher in a new era of disco music, one that’s primed for dance floors and rooted in Black radical traditions. The charismatic ...