Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Disco is a genre of music that people seem to feel passionately ...

Disco; it’s a vague word but over the course of the last 45-odd years, it’s come to mean a pretty narrow set of perceptions. Glitz, glamour, flares, sequins, cocaine, VIP, John Travolta, big hair, bad ...

Ever since the 1979 Disco Demolition Night in Chicago’s Comiskey Park — a stunt in which an angry mob led by a disgruntled radio shock jock rushed the baseball field to destroy disco albums — people ...

Nervous titters and giggles were audible in the University of Wyoming Union as 1970s disco videos and clips played on the screen, even inspiring an audience member to boogie for a couple minutes.

If you felt the world stop turning for a moment in July, it’s because Beyoncé dropped her new album, “Renaissance.” Rolling Stone has described her as the world’s “greatest living entertainer,” with a ...