Secret Disco Revolution 2012 720p WEB-DL H264-CtrlHD [PublicHD]

Specific music in the few decades prior to the 1970s could be associated with protest, and despite its outward vapidness, disco was no different in that it is the music of liberation for gays, blacks and women, which has resulted in many freedoms now taken for granted. It was also largely the mechanism through which New York City revitalized itself. Much of the early power was in the hands of the DJs, who had control of what people listened to and thus what became the hits on the Billboard charts. When disco became a popular brand, the power shifted to the producer, those largely with newly formed Casablanca Records, who were in charge of coming up with concepts on the successful formula. In turn, many established artists were encouraged to jump on the disco bandwagon. With the business side of the music business taking over, disco was dumbed down, with the blackifying of white music and whitifying of black music to make it all more mainstream, and with much of the emotion of the music stripped out solely to become music with the identifiable 4/4 beat. It transformed into the music purely of hedonism. This transformation may have led to its demise, which is still argued if it was male white America trying to regain their power base. However, disco would survive in a reimagined form largely with the gay community establishing its cultural and thus economic presence.