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Barbara Streisand once penned a letter to disco DJ Nicky Siano. Thankful fans and historians alike will have the chance to gaze upon this and many other disco artifacts at the New York Public Library in this spring’s Experience Music Project exhibit, Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights. To explain all things disco, ranging from Ethel Merman’s brief disco stint, to the street origins of a dance music embraced by even haughtiest of partiers, we’ll be joined by Eric Weibard, a curator from the Seattle-based, Experience Music Project and and Vince Aletti, a writer at the Village Voice and the self-proclaimed first-ever disco critic. Also on the show: Longtime New York Times arts writer John Rockwell is preparing to take on a new position as the Grey Lady's chief dance critic, and he's already unsettling the dance world.
Additional Resources:
» Experience Music Project
» Vince Aletti
» John Rockwell on Dance in the NY Times
» Rebuttals to John Rockwell