Chicago soul sound
Chicago Transit Authority
Chicks on Speed
Chicory Tip
Children of God
Chin, Brian
China Crisis
Chocolat
Chuck Wagon & the Wheels
Circus, Martin
Citi
civil rights movement
C.J. & Co.
Clark, Ossie
Clash
Class Action
classical music
Cleaver, Eldridge
Cliff, Jimmy
Clinton, George
“clone” look
Cloud One
Clout
Clowns
clubs: basement; for blacks; chill-out; gay; postwar night; see also discotheques; specific city or club
Cluster
Coasters
Coati Mundi. See Hernandez, Andy
Cochran, Eddie
Cockettes
Coconuts
Coffey, Dennis
Cohen, Shirley
Cohn, Nik
Cohn, Roy
Collins, Phil
Collins, Sharon
Collodi, Carlo
Coltrane, John
Comfort, Alex
Comiskey Park riot (Chicago)
Conjunto Libre
Connors, Norman
Conti, Bill
Continental Baths (New York City)
Contortions
Convertion
Conway, TG
Cooke, Sam
Cooper, Alice
Copeland, Johnny
Coquelin, Olivier
Corley, Al
Cornelius, Don
Corr, Frank
Corral, Michael “Lucky Strike”
Cortez, Dave “Baby”
Cose, Ellis
Cosmic (Italy)
Cosmic music
Costa, Jenny
Costandinos, Alec R.
Costello, Elvis
country music
County, Wayne/Jayne
Cowley, Patrick
Craig, Carl
Creative Source
Creatore, Luigi
Creole, Kid
Crisco Disco (New York City)
Criss, Gary
Cristina
Crocker, Frankie
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Cross, Christopher “Criss”
crossover
Crusaders
Cult Jam
Cummings, Tony
Curry, Tim
Curtis, Clem
Curtis, Ian
Curtis, King
Curtis, Tiger
Cut Glass
Cymande
Czukay, Holger
da Costa, Paulinho
Dahan, Pierre Alain
Dahl, Steve
D’Alessio, Carmen
Dalida
Dami, Maurizio
dance: crazes; and prehistory of disco; see also type of dance
Danceteria (New York City)
Daniels, Charlie
D’Aquisto, Steve
Darby & Tarlton
Darnell, August
Dash, Sarah
Davis, Betty
Davis, Clifton
Davis, Clive
Davis, Miles
Day, Bob
Daye, Cory
DC LaRue
Dean, Hazell
Deans, Mickey
Dee, Joey
Dees, Rick
Deleuze, Gilles
Delfonics
Denny, Martin
Denver, John
DePaul, Nilo
Depeche Mode
Descloux, Lizzy Mercier
Detroit Emeralds
Detroit, Michigan
Devizia, Tony
Dibango, Manu
Diddley, Bo
Diebold, David
Diga Rhythm Band
Dimanda Galás
Dinger, Klaus
Dinosaur
disco: abandonment of original constituency and values by; anonymity of; and antidisco campaign; and automating the beat; birth of; canon of; characteristics of; commercialization of; as dance craze; dark side of; and decadence; decline of; democratic nature of; and disco as craze; and disco-soul; and discontent; in early twenty-first century; as emblematic of America’s dwindling power; as emblematic of new kind of political resistance; emergence of; feminizing influence of; first disco record as #1 hit; first records of; foundation of sound of; height of; as liberalism’s last hurrah; mundanity of; as musical genre; and New York City in 1960s and early 1970s; nostalgia about; as part of establishment; as people’s entire social lives; pleasure principle of; prehistory of; profitability of; as “quality music”; as representing ideal of integration; as retreat back into body; sanitization of; and sexuality; spread of; subgenres of; superstar billing in; as theater; ultimate aim of; as underground; and visions of the world
Disco Demolition Derby (Comiskey Park)
Disco Sally
“disco sucks” movement
Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes
Disco Wiz
discotheques: admission to; and business networking; characteristics of typical New York DJ in; and disco craze; and disco-soul; egalitarianism in; exclusivity and inclusivity at; expansion in number of; images of; as means for selling records; mix at; in 1970s; popularity of; in postwar Europe; profitability of; rise of; social mix at; as success; see also clubs; specific club, city, or nation
Distel, Sacha
Divine
DJ Harvey
DJ Thomas (aka the Mammal)
DJs: in Britain; characteristics of typical New York; club; combination of live performance and; and disco in early twenty-first century; and hip-hop; Mancuso organizes New York; in Miami; and mixing; new breed of; punk; and race; radio; and reel-to-reel tapes; and Swing Kids; women as; see also mix; specific person
DNA
Dodd, Alan
Doggett, Bill
Dominatrix (aka Stuart Argabright)
Don Armando’s 2nd Ave. Rumba Band
Donghia, Angelo
Donovan, Terry
doo-wop
Doobie Brothers
Doors
Dorritie, Kathy
Dorsey, Lee
Dorsey, Thomas
Double Exposure
Douglas, Carl
Douglas, Carol
Downes, Geoff
Downing, Al
Downing, Don
Dozier, Lamont
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band
Drach, Ted
Drifters
drugs; and decline of disco; and disco craze; and disco-soul; and gay disco clubs; and Italo-disco; in New York City
drum machine
D.ST
“D” Train
Duarte, Tito. See Barrabas
Duncan, Eric
Duran Duran
Dylan, Bob
Dynamic Superiors
Dynell, Johnny
Dyson, Ronnie
Eagle, Roger
East Coast disco
East Coast funk
Eastbound Expressway
Eastman, Julius
Ebonys
economy
Ecstasy
Eddy, Nelson
Eden, Paul
Edge, The
Edwards, Bernard. See also Chic
Edwards, Dennis
Edwards, Gordon
Edwards, Greg
Edwin Hawkins Singers
El Coco
Electric Indian
electroboogie
electronic music
Elephant’s Memory
Eli, Bobby
Ellington, Duke
Ellis, Jay
Ellis, Jimmy. See also Trammps
Ellison, Lorraine
Emerson
Eno, Brian
Epstein, Joseph
Equals
Erectus, Dennis
Eric B
& Rakim
ESG
Ethics
Eurodisco
Europe: and comparison between American and European social dancing; disco in early twenty-first century in; discotheques in 1970s in; gay aesthetic in; and Italo-disco; postwar nightlife in; see also Europop; specific nation
Europop
Evans, Arthur
Evans, Brenda Joyce
Exciters
Executive Suite
Expanded Cinema
Experiment Four
Exploding Plastic Inevitable (Warhol)
Exuma
Fabian
Fagenson, Donald
Faith, Gene
Faith, Hope & Charity
Faithfull, Marianne
Fall
Fältskog, Agnetha
Fantastic Aleems
Fantastics
Farian, Frank
Farren, Mick
Fearing, Jonathan
Fearless Four
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Fela Kuti
Felder, Wilton
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Fesco, Michael
Fierman, Michael
Fillyau, Clayton
films
Finch, Richard
Finkelstein, Cary
Finlay, Don
Fiorucci (disco boutique). See also Halston, Gucci, Fiorucci
Fire Island, New York
Firefall
Firehouse (New York City)
First Choice
Five Crowns
Flack, Roberta
Flakes
Flamingo (New York City)
Flamingos
Fleming, Jonathan
Flirts
Florida, clubs in
Flowers, Wayne
Fluxus movement
Fontella Bass
Foreigner
Forsey, Keith
Foundations
Fountain, James
Four Seasons
Four Tops
Fouratt, Jim
Foxx, Kinky
Foxy
France
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Franklin, Aretha
Freak (dance)
free jazz
Freeman, Joshua
Freeman, Roger
freestyle
Freez
Frehley, Ace
French Kiss
Full Force
Funhouse (New York City)
funk; and African Americans; and automating the beat; and decline of disco; and disco craze; and disco in early twenty-first century; and disco-soul; and Eurodisco; and gospel; Minneapolis; Palmer as father of; and punk; and subgenres of disco
Funkadelic
Fuqua, Harvey
Furious Five
Gadd, Steve
Gainsbourg, Serge
Gale, Eric
Gallery (New York City)
Galvez, Armando
Gamble, Kenny
Gang of Four
Garland, Judy
gay clubs
Gay Men’s Health Crisis
gay pride/liberation movement
Gaye, Marvin
Gayle, Crystal
Gaynor, Gloria
Gaynor, Janet
gays: aesthetic of, in Europe; African Americans as; and antidisco movement; and automating the beat; and characteristics of disco; and decline of disco; and disco; and disco craze; and disco in early twenty-first century; and disco-soul; on Fire Island; legitimacy of sex among; and The Loft; New York laws about; and prehistory of disco; and race; and soul in United Kingdom; in United Kingdom; see also bathhouses; gay clubs; specific person or club
Gaytones
Gaz
Gazebo
Gedda, Laurence J.
Gefter, Philip
Geist, Morgan
Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band
George, Nelson
Germany, Swing Kids in
Gibb, Barry
Gibb, Maurice
Gibb, Robin
Gibbons, Walter
Gibson Brothers
Gibson, Walter
Gichy Dan’s Beachwood #9
Gidden, Yvonne
Gilmore, Mikal
Ginsberg, Allen
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Glass, Philip
Glaxo Babies
Glover, Sue
Go-Go’s
Goblin
Godin, David
Goldman, Albert
Gomez, Nico
Gonella, Nat
Gonzalez, Jerry
Gooding, Cuba
Gordon, Peter
Gordy, Berry
Gorney, Karen Lynn
gospel; and automating the beat; and disco-soul
Göttsching, Manuel
Graham, Larry
Grand Wizard Theodore
Grandmaster Caz
Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel’s
Grant, Eddy
Grasso, Francis
Grateful Dead
Gray
Green, Al
Green, Jerome
Greenberg, Jerry
Griffey, Dick
Griffith, Roni
Gross, Michael
Gruen, John
Guattari, Felix
Gucci. See Halston, Gucci, Fiorucci
Guthrie, Woodie
Gutman, Herbert
Guttadaro, Bobby “Bobby DJ”
Guttenberg, Steve
Gypsy Lane
Haazen, Guido
Haden-Guest, Anthony
Haggard, Merle
Haircut
Halen, Van
Hall, Daryl
Hall, Denise
Hallyday, Johnny
Halston
Halston, Gucci, Fiorucci
Hamill, Pete
Hamlyn, Chris
Hancock, Herbie
Hannett, Martin
“happenings”
Haraway, Donna
“Hard Hat Riots” (1970)
Hardy, Françoise
Hardy, Ron
Harlem Hamfats
Harlow, Jean
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Harpo, Slim
Harris, Alan
Harris, Charles “Valentino”
Harris, Dennis
Harris, Ennis. See Trammps
Harris, Joe
Harris, Major
Harris, Norman
Harris, Richard
Harrison, George
Harry, Debbie
Hart, John. See also Trammps
Hart, Mickey
Hartley, Scott
Hartman, Dan
Harvard Business School, study of soul and Columbia Records by
Harvey, Steven
Hathaway, Donny
Havens, Richie
Hawkshaw, Alan
Hayes, Isaac
Haynes, Michael
Haza, Ofra
He-Man Band
“head music”
Heard, Larry
Heart and Soul Orchestra
Heath, Jimmy
Heatwave
Helgesen, Sally
Hell’s Angels
Henderson, Willie
Hendrix, Jimi
Hendryx, Nona
Henry, Ann
Herbie Goins & the Nightimers
Hernandez, Andy “Coati Mundi”
Hernandez, Patrick
Herrmann, Bernard
Hi-NRG
Highsmith, Patricia
Hill, Chris
hip-hop
Hipnosis
hippies
Hippies With Haircuts
Hockney, David
Hocquenghem, Guy
Hodo, David
Holland, Brian
Holland, Eddie
Holland, Tom
Holleran, Andrew
Holloway, Brenda
Holloway, Loleatta
Holman, Eddie
Holman, Michael
Holmes, Marvin
Holmstrom, John
homosexuality. See gays
Honeydrippers
Hooker, John Lee
Horn, Trevor
Horne, Jimmy “Bo”
Horne, Lena
Hot Butter
Hot Shots
Hotline
House label
House Nation (New York City)
Houston, Cissy
Houston, Thelma
Hudon, Frank
Hudson, Al
Hues Corporation
Huff, Leon
Hughes, Glenn
Hughes, Howard
Hughes, Walter
Hugo & Luigi
Humphrey, Bobbi
Humphries, Tony
Hunt, Wendy
Hunter, Alberta
Hurrah (New York City)
Hurtt, Phil
hustle (dance)
Hustle Kings
Hutch, Willie
Hutter, Ralf
Hyams, Marjorie
Ice Palace (Fire Island, New York)
Idjut Boys
Iggy & the Stooges
Impressions
Imus, Don
Incredible Bongo Band
Indeep
Indian Ocean
Infinity (New York City)
Ingram, Barbara
Ingram, Jimmy
Ingram, John
Inner Life
Instant Funk
Intruders
Iron Butterfly
Irvine, Weldon
Isherwood, Christopher
Isley Brothers
Italian Americans, role in dance music culture of
Italo-disco
Italy, clubs in
Jack, Wolfman
Jacks, Cheryl
Jackson
Jackson, “Big Bank Hank”
Jackson, Dee D
Jackson, Jermaine
Jackson, Michael
Jackson, Tony
Jacno
Jacobs, Debbie
Jacobson, Mark
Jacobson, Sam
Jagger, Bianca
Jagger, Mick
Jam & Lewis
Jamerson, James
James, Bob
James Chance & the Contortions
James, Rick
James, Sylvester. See Sylvester
James, Tommy
James White & the Blacks
Jarre, Jean-Michel
Jarrett, Keith
Jaxon, Frankie “Half Pint”
Jaymes, Jesse
jazz; and disco craze; and disco-soul
JB’s
Jeremy, Ron
Jesrani, Darshan
Jessup, Jim
Jesters
jet set
J. Geils Band
Jiani, Carol
Jimmy James & the Vagabonds
Joey Dee & the Starliters
John, Elton
Johnny Johnson & the Bandwagon
Johnson, Donald
Johnson, L. J.
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Syl
Johnstone, James
Jonas, Joan
Jones, Aled
Jones, Bob
Jones, Casey
Jones, E. Rodney
Jones Girls
Jones, Grace
Jones, LeRoi
Jones, Philly Joe
Jones, Quincy
Jones, Randy
Jones, Raymond
Jones, Tamiko
Jones, Tom
Jones, Uriel
Joneses, The
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