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...
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...