with regard to your comments about `white males’ and rock’n'roll.

this is a total myth, that somehow, `white males’ uniquely did not like disco, which was in turn the music enjoyed by gays and blacks.

A couple of things: blacks tend to be more `homophobic’ (a much overused term for prejudice against homosexuals) than whites: the idea that discotheques were places where `blacks, gays, and blue collar white woman’ mixed in splendid peace, before `disco sucks’ white males came along and spoiled the party, has about as much foundation in facts as `the Tribal Rituals of the New Saturday Night…’

Disco became popular BECAUSE white males started to like it; rock’n'rollers fought back just because they hated the music, regardless of whom was listening to it (and bands such as the Stones, Bowie – even the Grateful Dead if you can believe it – started incorporating disco into their music).

I only started hearing about this `white males’ destroyed disco’ garbage years and years after disco finally died out…

Disco on middle of the road radio bore little if any resemblance to the stuff actually played in discos at the time.

Most things when they are “the underground” or “alternative” are worlds apart from what makes it big in Casey Kasem’s universe.

As Blondie was to punk/new wave, the Bee Gees were to Disco.

And yes R&R was a straight white male bastion.

No doubt ass deep in closeted souls desperate to do the bump, the slosh and the hustle.

Well that’s a pathetically inflammatory statement.

Rock and roll did come from black music/blues. However, it was stolen from a lot of black artists that never saw a penny of royalties for various reasons, not all of them entirely legit.

I was young during the disco era, but recall those stereotypical white boy rockers calling it “gay” or “jungle music”, which is kind of nasty.

Again, that stereotype is in no way all encompassing, but it’s not a stereotype for no reason at all either. I think that’s the point that the post was trying to get across here. The whole “disco sucks” thing was not always about the music, but about the people associated with it.

Arena rock hick bands like Aerosmith and Guns’n'Roses are trash, and hardly rock and roll.

Disco rules.

Anyway…

RIP Disco. Buh-bye!

Many people, including rock fans, objected to the nature of disco music knew little or cared about the scene. What they knew about disco came from the radio.

Top 40 disco seemed soul-less and mind-numbing. The media added fuel to this fire — you should try and find the 60 Minutes segment on disco. IT is incredibly biased and based on a sample of one but it helped the “disco sucks” movement by “exposing” disco as a corporate creation. And yes, I know that is ironic.

The disco sucks movement was suburban and I believe did have some elements of racism. But African-Americans were so removed from white suburbia that this racism was secondary to the visceral reaction to the music itself and the fact that it was crowding the airwaves.

From my read of history, the most racist element of rock at the time was the urban punk/new wave movement. Lester Bangs picked up on this bad vibe and its certainly there in the oral history “Please Kill Me”…

First I heard that bit about “working class white women”…lol… But that’s probably why alot of white males started frequenting discos and mainstream rock increasingly became the domain of nerds (at least in the middle class).

Keep in mind that a stereotype doesn’t necessarily include every single person. It’s all highly generalized.