Meanwhile, its shimmering rhythmic elements found their way into many of the songs that followed ... and Thelma Houston became top performers, finding in disco another language in which to voice ...

Disco is a genre of music that people ... because the filmmakers focused on not just the hits, but the best and the most important songs in the genre’s rise and its heyday.

Paul McCartney's disco song about God feels oddly servile for an artist who was once associated with the hippie scene.