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- "Saturday Night Fever" Eight Track Tape, 1977 - The 8-track tape is an endless-loop, magnetic-tape sound recording technology developed in the mid-1960s. Inventors initially conceived of the 8-track tape and player to provide music in automobiles--its portability was an attractive feature. An 8-track tape also offered long playing times, but other features could hinder listening pleasure. Improved cassette tapes and new compact disc technology displaced the 8-track in the early 1980s.
- 1977
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"Saturday Night Fever" Eight Track Tape, 1977
The 8-track tape is an endless-loop, magnetic-tape sound recording technology developed in the mid-1960s. Inventors initially conceived of the 8-track tape and player to provide music in automobiles--its portability was an attractive feature. An 8-track tape also offered long playing times, but other features could hinder listening pleasure. Improved cassette tapes and new compact disc technology displaced the 8-track in the early 1980s.
- "The Bronx Meets Queens Disco Jam Featuring DJ Afrika Bambaataa," 1980 - Hip-hop culture developed in the 1970s and 1980s at parties and venues across New York City and its suburbs. Fliers like these advertised these events and often included the names of performing DJs and emcees to build the audience's anticipation. The maker of this flier took design inspiration from the concurrently burgeoning New York street art scene.
- December 01, 1980
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"The Bronx Meets Queens Disco Jam Featuring DJ Afrika Bambaataa," 1980
Hip-hop culture developed in the 1970s and 1980s at parties and venues across New York City and its suburbs. Fliers like these advertised these events and often included the names of performing DJs and emcees to build the audience's anticipation. The maker of this flier took design inspiration from the concurrently burgeoning New York street art scene.
- Record Album, "Do You Think I'm Disco / Coho Lip Blues," 1979 - Chicago radio DJ, Steve Dahl, became famous for his hatred of disco music. He wrote parody songs to criticize discotheque culture and performed them with his band, Teenage Radiation. In 1979, he conceived and hosted Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park during a double-header baseball game; Dahl detonated thousands of vinyl records, inciting a riot among the crowd.
- 1979
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Record Album, "Do You Think I'm Disco / Coho Lip Blues," 1979
Chicago radio DJ, Steve Dahl, became famous for his hatred of disco music. He wrote parody songs to criticize discotheque culture and performed them with his band, Teenage Radiation. In 1979, he conceived and hosted Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park during a double-header baseball game; Dahl detonated thousands of vinyl records, inciting a riot among the crowd.