DISCO turns 50 – #3 Eurodisco and Italo
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This programme is held in Hungarian.
Disco, as a musical style, is an achievement of the 1970s; it reached its peak fifty years ago, in 1976, sweeping away everything and dominating the musical world for several years, and it has been constantly renewing and returning ever since. The disco (discotheque), as a synonym for clubs, has an even longer history, and the two are closely intertwined. In our four-part series we trace the path of the genre; the multimedia presentation is completed by period music, bibliographical curiosities, archival materials, and numerous musical inserts. On site, a DJ presents the music live: the lecture is preceded by an atmosphere-setting warm-up, and the evening is closed by a special musical mix that also foreshadows the next stops in the series. The second part, titled The Peak, presents the world domination of the genre.
In the third part of the series we present the European development of disco.
In the third part of the series we switch continents and turn our attention to the European events of disco. We get to know Europe’s role in disco’s success and then in the evolution of the style. Giorgio Moroder launched the history of electronic disco, and at the same time ignited the history of electronic dance music. From the 1970s we take stock of the most successful German, Italian, French, and Swedish figures (including Silver Convention, ABBA, Boney M, Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer, Cerrone, Voyage, Sheila B. Devotion and their peers). Alongside the better-known performers there will be room for those who created something enduring, such as Space or Alec R. Costandinos, representatives of the German Munich Sound and the French Connection. We will also touch on the history of space disco, which ran for a shorter time but had a much greater after-effect, together with its performers.
On the highly important Italian line, we rapidly follow the developmental arc of European disco music, from American influences through italofunk and the stylistic traits of 1980s italo disco (Ryan Paris, Gazebo, Savage, Den Harrow, Ken Laszlo, Fun Fun, Radiorama, Baltimora, etc.), to German eurodisco (Modern Talking, C.C. Catch, Bad Boys Blue), after which, in the 1980s, the doors opened toward mainstream eurodance. We continue to use the possibilities offered by the multimedia environment already presented in the previous lectures, enriched with a bibliography. Numerous musical inserts brighten the evening, once again conducted on site by a DJ. Huge hits are already lined up during the atmosphere-setting musical warm-up before the lecture begins, and the presentation is then closed by a live-mixed, rousing musical mix. An hour and a half about Europe’s successful disco years.
Giorgio Moroder’s revolutionary song for Donna Summer, I Feel Love (1977):
Cerrone and one of the best disco tracks, Supernature (1978):
An italo classic, Mr. Flagio and Take a Chance from 1983:
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