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Dive into how disco fell victim to a violent backlash and emerged to come back stronger.
Disco seemed untouchable by the end of the 1970s, but an incited violent backlash led to its demise. Dive into disco's underground return, where it laid the foundations for all future electronic dance music.
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Episode 3 Preview
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Disco seemed untouchable by the end of the 1970s, but an incited violent backlash led to its demise. Dive into disco's underground return, where it laid the foundations for all future electronic dance music.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ Uh huh ♪ - Disco got bloated.
It also got rich.
- It started with soul, but totally lost it.
- [Narrator] Disco wasn't a victim of its own success.
A lot of people wanted to capitalize on that.
- [Narrator] There wasn't all of these songs.
- It was just so corny.
It was too much.
I think people were sick of it.
- You can't stop creativity.
- All the music today owes everything to disco.
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