Disc Music 70

DISC MUSIC - THE WHOLE WORLD DANCE HALL

DISC MUSIC has left a deep track in the history of a contemporary music, or for quality that for amount (wineskin settantamila tito them in the arc of a decade). In truth, at the beginning of years '70, something happened that it has modified in irreversible way the way to mean and to make use the destined musical products to the tracks from dance. The new style, in fact, was not only a dance or a specific kind of music, but it became, very soon, a variegato microcosm legacy to a precise way to interpret the life and the consumption of free time, to dress themselves, to pose; above all, for the first time, this new liturgy of the movement was consumed with collective ritualità in of the real ones templi of the dance and the divertimento called discotheques, but, still before, in of loft, improvised the local ones from dance before-litteram, proceeds from apartments or scantinati and attended in maximum part from black, Hispanic, homosexual and Italian-Americans. It could be asserted that eclectic craftsmen of rhythm & blues from the hot blood and too much jazzisti from much elastic the creative fantasy arranged the transaction of the century. They were, quickly, in many, the ready producers to bet on the kind, thus the first microtracks, from the obvious ritmica and with turns of low marked, they conquered the classifiche, but above all they fascinate the heart and the legs of million young people. The product in itself had something of damned and divine to the contempo: a lightning bolt of pure genius, a charming force, an innocent escape and a lasciva temptation always in perfect equilibrium. The Musa novel of the tracks from dance offered to the adepts person, centrifugando some the emotions in a kind of delicate pietanza, spalmabile on the orecchie, a irresistibile sweetens, but ipnotico and wrapping. The disc, proceeding with levità, with the exception of other average of entertainment, showed a natural inclination to join different persons color, race, ideology, religion, preference sexual and economic situation, in a ecumenico dialogue made of music and dance in a position to extending many limitations taxes from the prejudgments of the daily life. A pacific revolution to teaches of the indefensible lightness of the being. Depositing Sul POP-rock, years '60 had concluded their cycle with a series of events negatives to chain: the issolution of the Beatles, the dead women of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, but above all the knowledge that the time of the great illusion, that is to change the world with the songs, was ended. II corpse of the old one rock weighed on the new decade like a hard sandstone, while the disc, proceeding to pie' light to the olympic par of the divinity, was not only made wide between the young people and. Beginning from first years '70, the reflectors began to ignite themselves on other subjects: on the minorities (above all black) in phase of emancipation and the young people of working class. When gay (but also the black ones, the Hispanics, the Italian-Americans, the women) characterized the way in order to exit from the ghetto, were found again, nearly for spell, in a world of edonismo, music, lustrini and lights push-buttons, catapultati from the buio of the poverty and the precarietà of the life in road on a theater box illuminated from thousand lights, a gigantic park you play where all it seemed possible: in primis, I redeem social. The disc, to part the musical importance, was born and it developed itself in order to support a new economic field: in the America of the oil and torn crisis from the Vietnam, they served investments and an optimism climate (have not sold never more many discs, how much in the period dominated from the disc music). In this picture the many social changes s'inserirono, legacies to the evolution of the musical culture of the black ones, to the modernization of the soul, the new role of the minorities, to the sexual liberation, the changes in the use of the free time and to the modern requirements of the middle class. Till the end of years 60, the phenomenon clubbing had been an other matter, being classified only to the jet-set and the presumed celebrities. In America like in Europe, the evenings in the clubs a connotation glamour and exclusive right were founded on, finalized to feeding the job of the paparazzi, to placare the vogliosità of autograph hunters of and filling up imaginary popular with the faces of people with many hats and little head or a brain to low content of neurons: plethoras of starlet always in balance and narcisisti to the fair of the vanity. The disc, at least in its first phase of development, alloy to some changes that the Afros-American invested in full load. Also determining or influencing the several social and economic phenomena, that they carried to a general improvement of the living conditions of color people, it did not know any to amplify the meanings, making from case of resonance to that change that, above all in music, seemed to give its yields better: before the advent of the disc, never they had not been looked in turn, for the classifiche or in the shelves of the disc stores, many black artists you flavored yourself, that is accepted and danced with the same emotional transport it is from the white men who give the black ones. That music, frivolous and leggiadra, let alone apparently foriera of a kind of triumph of the black optimism, was very adapted to an pleasant climate of rise towards the summit of the social scale. The disc was a paradigm, an ineluctable model, in which the member basement ended soon with dozing off, enslaving itself to the market laws. Also the rock, in its multiple meanings, it had made the same one. Thus the disc-music, in particular for the strong incidence in mercantile terms, succeeded to condition an age. Obviously it was danced also before, but from years '70 in then, they is danced uninterruptedly to the same way, that is in 4/4: they change only to the sounds and the technologies. After 1977, from elite phenomenon, the disc was transformed in immediate and easy fruibile form of popular music, opening a second phase in the life of a Vincente subject, than, they give beyond five years, was inducing and imposing substantial changes at the market of juvenile music of consumption. In particular, the affirmation of the Eurodisco, the bleaching of the expressive modules and the excessive use of electronics and obsessing ritmiche lead soon to a repetitive iper-production and the banalization of the same phenomenon. The disc-music, for sure backs, still remains a underrated universe, perhaps because misconosciuto, at least in its social, racial member and underground. The fact to continue to identify it single with the travoltismo and the Saturday Night Fever or with saltelloni of the Village People, means to perseverare in a madornale error of historical appraisal.

Francisco C. Verrina