Disco music originated in the 1960s at underground venues popular with LGBTQ+, Black, and Latinx Americans. Still, it wasn’t long before the subculture spread from clubs in New York and Philadelphia ...

The 1970s. What a decade for music! It was a wild, experimental, and incredibly fertile period that saw genres explode, artists push boundaries, and hit after hit cascade from radios across the globe.

If you lived the relatively brief era when it ruled the world in the late 1970s, it’s hard to remain unbiased about disco. For some, it was the soundtrack of their coming-of-age years. Others ran as ...

Over the past few years for Black History Month, World Cafe has dug into different genres and their importance in the Black music canon over the decades. "What I'm talking about when I say dance music ...