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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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His training began with disco dancing in the early '80s, and progressed through jazz and tap and, finally, ballet.
From cruise ships to musicals, Gavin Lee puts his best foot forward by Gold, Sylviane / Dance Magazine
Following the ceremony, guests were welcomed to a dazzling reception at the Wahabi Temple in Jackson, where the wedding party and guests enjoyed disco dancing to the band Phase IV and two-stepping to the county western band Borderline.
King Grant by Mississippi Magazine
celebrated its 25th anniversary, with a gala evening of disco dancing harkening back to the glory days of John Travolta's 1980 breakthrough movie Saturday Night Fever.
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