Disco

:"Discothèque" redirects here. For the U2 song, see Discothèque (song).

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U2 - Discothèque (song)

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Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music (generally between 110 and 136 beats per minute) that originated in the early-1970s, a derivative of funk and soul music, popular with audiences in larger cities all over the world, and derives its name from the French word discothèque (meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment was recorded music rather than an on-stage band), a portmanteau coined around 1941 from disc and bibliothèque (library) by La Discothèque, then located on the Rue de la Huchette street in Paris (Jones + Kantonen, 1999).

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Dance music - 1970s - Funk - Soul music - Nightclub - Portmanteau - 1941 - Disc

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