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disco at end of 1970s

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the disco sucks movement

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rock and rollers hated disco

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it threatened many of the aspects of the hippy aesthetic

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radio stations were changing formats

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1980s

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the fad for disco gets absorbed in many ways

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the idea of dancing music in a club

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master-minded by a DJ doesn't go away

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it's off the mainstream, not a style

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continues to be a musical practice

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continued as a club seen, went into the underground

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1990s electronic dance music

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sometimes called techno

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techno didn't quite replace rock and roll as some said

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the job of making electronic music work has to do with the DJ

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keep people on the dance floor dancing

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a DJ is restricted since they have to depend on what is already recorded

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have a danceable part of a turn on two turn tables

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in the 1990s they could do it digitally

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it takes some artistry to make it happen

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Larry Levan

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New York

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Paradise Garage

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garage style

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Frankie Knuckles

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Chicago

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house style

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get a drum machine, add extra beats

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took the best bits of the records and extended them

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Belleville three

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Detroit

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Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson

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European synthesizer music like Kraftwerk

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futuristic synth style

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the beginning of techno

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1980s/1990s

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all night rave culture

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New York

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San Francisco

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Los Angeles

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the second summer of love

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gets transplanted to the UK

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1990s the first important records emerge

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Orbital

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Moby

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Prodigy

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United States

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The Chemical Brothers

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1997 Did Your Own Head

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The Prodigy

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1997 Fat of the Land

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Breath

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Out of Space

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Moby

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1999 Play

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a resurgence of dance music, but in a way that is less simplistic or pop-minded than say, The Twist or Saturday Night Fever

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sophisticated instead of simply using a mechanical beat so everyone can dance

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wrap up of the History of Rock course

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as time passes, our perception of the past changes

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we try to be objective

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try not to change the history to reflect values that we hold now

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reception theory

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tracks the ways things change as values change throughout history

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what may seem important at the time turns out to be less important

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and visa versa

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history does it's best work when it can look back at events with an objective way

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you don't want to read rock history pulling for your favorite band

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so the 1990s are difficult since the dust hasn't settled yet

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getting into the period after 2000 is not really history yet