Word: disco
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...addition, someone got carried away with the wonders of black lights. While the strobe light and disco ball were funny and certainly reminiscent of the '70s, the black lights had nothing to do with anything and yet were used in every possible place from the overture to the kickline...
...genre that got its start as renegade street music back in the mid-1970s. Turned off by the blandness of disco and the slickness of rhythm and blues, disk jockeys in black dance clubs began manipulating their turntables to blend instrumental riffs from different songs, dragging the needle across a record to create an even harsher sound. While these brash mixes played, M.C.s, or rappers, would exhort the crowd with chants: "When I die, bury me deep;/ Put two speakers at my feet,/ A mixer at my head,/ So that when you close the casket/ I can rock the dead...
...this night she is one of only half a dozen men and women in the disco on the 37th floor of the Hotel Stadt Berlin in Alexanderplatz -- the modernistic public square where most of the demonstrations in East Berlin for this new, democratic way of life have taken place. "People are exhausted," says the bartender. "It is too much to comprehend...
...school that in the capitalist countries the boss makes the money from the workers. And now we know our leaders are the same. That is why we are so sad." She is chagrined at the signs all around her that ordinary East Germans -- including the bartender in the disco -- are playing currency- exchange games with visitors from the West...