Why doesn't Disco music get props for being the mother of House music?

[beenz]

Gamble and Huff were their own brand of music man.

 

[bertyr]

nice breakdown with samples on the evolution of beat-style genres from the 70's up to the 00's

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music | New Home on Techno.org

 

[Nintendough]

Funk helped along with breaks from many genres spawn Hip Hop music. Somes cats and especially labels like Sugar Hill and Enjoy just rode the disco wave in the late 70s.

Def agree.... I love those old breaks and beats.

 

[Rakim Allah]

Def agree.... I love those old breaks and beats.



Funk Breaks and Beats (50+ original breakbeats) in the mix - YouTube

if I ever find that 45 out in the world!!

 

[NYC Rebel]

shyt....Afro beat came out in the 70's. .....

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Disco is the father of Dance-pop and EDM, period.





To answer the question though, as far as America goes, the people in the know are aware of it's connection to Disco but to many others, they think it came from Europe.

It does....maybe not in America where people really dont have a clue about house... but in Europe everyone knows that Disco, the cities of Detroit and Chicago birthed dance music...

Europeans appreciated it more more because in America, Disco/dance music got associated with with blacks, puerto ricans and gay people from conservative whites/the Rock crowd. Euro's weren't hung up on that because they knew they had nothing like it in their homelands.

American DJs are more famous in Europe than they are in America

Yep

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

disco being a fad is why people shat on hip hop

they shoulda let disco cook

 

[IllmaticDelta]

disco being a fad is why people shat on hip hop

they shoulda let disco cook

Disco never left, they just changed the marketing from Disco to Dance and the music kept on moving.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Classic

 

[NormanConnors]

...my pops swears on them as do I.

Lou Rawls was a fool for leaving them...he was off those telethons in the 80s though.

Pos rep for the Lou Rawls mention.

 

[JohnB]

Very informative

 

[IllmaticDelta]

2 other great Disco related Docus

 

[keond]

Disco and new jack swing are two of the last shots of true soul music sub genres that came out of black culture. Cacs try to discredit it because it was mostly a BLACK and gay sub genre, but it produced some funky ass music. Gamble and huff one of the most prolific production teams of all time fam, Donna Summer had one of the best voices, Heatwave and Rod Temperton, the BeeGees my nikka?

IF things were fair, Chic would be up there as one of the best rhythmn sections in music history. Nile Rodgers+Bernard Edwards+Tony Thompson and Luther on background vocals?

 

[IllmaticDelta]

IF things were fair, Chic would be up there as one of the best rhythmn sections in music history. Nile Rodgers+Bernard Edwards+Tony Thompson

Edwards basslines

 

[NYC Rebel]

Edwards basslines

Dog....I saw Niles Rogers at EssenceFest this weekend. I had NO CLUE how much of his music was a part of my upbringing. Spent half the time listening to him jamming with everyone dancing and I'm like