Nightclub

A nightclub (often shortened to club in both the UK and US) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. In most other languages, night clubs are referred to as "discos" or "discothèques" (French: discothèque, German: Disko, Japanese: ディスコ, disuko).

History

In the U.S., the repeal of Prohibition in February 1933 sparked the revival of nightclubs, which had gone underground as speakeasies. In New York City, three famous Midtown nightclubs from the "Golden Age" were the Stork Club, El Morocco and the Copacabana, while uptown in Harlem the Cotton Club was king.

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U.S. - Prohibition - 1933 - Speakeasies - New York City - Midtown - Stork Club - El Morocco - Copacabana - Harlem - Cotton Club

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The first rock and roll generation did not favor nightclubs, but the club returned in the 1970s as the "disco," from the French discothèque (although by the early 2000s, the term "disco" had largely fallen out of favor in the U.S.). Two early discos in New York were "Le Club" and "Regine's." Today in Europe, nightclubs play techno and trance music for the most part. Some nightclubs in the U.S. play trance and techno, but it is still not as popular.

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Rock and roll - 1970s - Disco - 2000s

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