Nu-Disco

By philip sherburne, eMusic Contributor

By now, only the stodgiest holdouts still believe that disco was nothing but a spangled blight on the musical landscape of the '70s -- a sham of Spandex excess and manufactured funk. Some of the reconsideration is simply a result of maturation: critics like Peter Shapiro and Tim Lawrence argue compellingly that much of disco's disfavor was bound up in the music's roots in gay, black and Latino subcultures, but America today (one hopes) is,… more »