Hi everyone, this is Pappy Andrews and welcome back to Sunday Skool. Last week you were presented with some ideas about how Punk Rock (or specifically Post Punk Rock) influenced the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) that we all love today. I hope last weeks article was able to get most of you thinking about the “origins” of dance music.
As I mentioned last week, the typical discussion about the origins of today’s Dance Music revolves around DISCO. So this week we are going to go over the direct impact that the Disco/Post-Disco era actually has on our culture today.
In the 1960′s and early 70′s, the jukebox was the predominant medium for listening to music in New York clubs. Commercial venues had to adhere to strict city rules. The social and political climate were in constant flux. Small bars and dance spaces in New York from the outer boroughs to midtown — Malcolm’s, Andre’s, Uncle Charlies, Buttermilk Bottoms, The Gilded Grape, The Firehouse, The Continental Baths — gave refute to the disquiet. Below the surface a new way of life was evolving, by-passing and answering a call for life, the ethos that would be the dominant influence to what was to come in dance music culture.
