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disco
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disco

Style of dance music that arose in the mid-1970s, characterized by hypnotic rhythm, repetitive lyrics, and electronically produced sounds. Disco (short for discotheque) evolved largely from New York City underground nightclubs, in which disc jockeys would play dance records for hours without interruption, taking care to synchronize the beats so as to make a seamless change between records. Artists such as Donna Summer, Chic, and the Bee Gees had many hits in the genre, which peaked with the release of the film Saturday Night Fever (1977). Disco faded quickly after 1980, but its powerful influence, especially its sequenced electronic beats, still continues to affect much of pop music.

Microsoft's lightweight counterpart to UDDI for discovering Web services. Directed more to organizations that want to implement Web services internally, Disco is included in the .NET Framework. See UDDI.
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The interest in rave or disco dance cultures has supported a better understanding of youth practices as linked to drug-taking and peer group formation, but this approach and emphasis maintains the marginal status of youth dance with respect to other aspects of adolescent life that involve social participation and identification (Lenton, Boys & Norcross 1997).
Dance classes, youth cultures and public health by Gardner, Sally / Youth Studies Australia
After a rave for his disco dance in ``Love Actually'' (sure to put Tom Cruise's underwear dance in the dustbin), Grant demurred, ``I didn't want to do that scene at all.
TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The choreography by Jerry Mitchell, who came up with Kevin Kline's disco dance routine in the movie In & Out, inventively walks the line between butch and camp.
The Full Monty by Shewey, Don / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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