The Anti-Disco Army

Описание к видео The Anti-Disco Army

Rerun: ‘Disco Demolition Night’, the brainchild of 24 year-old shock jock Steve Dahl, caused mass hysteria at Comiskey Park, Chicago on 12th July, 1979 - causing a pitch invasion that lead to 39 arrests.


Intended as a promotional event for a Tigers vs White Sox doubleheader, attendees were lured with discounted admission if they turned up to the game armed with disco records to be blown up with powerful explosives; an intermission entertainment that has since been contextualised as a racist, homophobic book-burning.


In this episode, Olly, Rebecca and Arion examine why Chicago was caught in a rock/disco divide; revisit the club classics of 1979; and question the wisdom of sex on third base…


Further Reading:


• Broadcast footage from the night - from The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:    • Super Disco Demolition: The 40th Anni...  


• ‘Disco Demolition: the night they tried to crush black music’ (The Guardian, 2019):


https://www.theguardian.com/music/201...


• ‘July 12, 1979: 'The Night Disco Died' — Or Didn't’ (NPR, 2016): https://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485873...






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The Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.


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Image: By Eddie Wagner - Original publication: 1979, Chicago TribuneImmediate source: https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-ma..., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...













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