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Vintage Fashion from the disco era (missrogue/flickr)
Disco’s golden era may be long past, but its legacy is more than polyester suits and glitter balls. Today on Soundcheck – disco’s deeper meaning for gay liberation, feminism and race relations in America.
Plus: Rupa & The April Fishes live in our studio.
Dance Dance Revolution
It may have provided the soundtrack for the “Me Decade” of the 1970s, but disco was anything but shallow and disposable. Author Alice Echols joins us to talk about disco's role as harbinger of social change.
Disco in India
In 1983, well after Studio 54's heyday, a musician in India named Charanjit Singh released an album called Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat. But it was hardly a Diana Ross rip-off. Writer Geeta Dayal says it predicted electronic music to come. She joins us with the recently re-issued Ten Ragas and other deep cuts from Indian disco.
In Studio: Rupa & The April Fishes
Rupa and The April Fishes is a 6 piece band from San Francisco that moves between genre and geography to create a sound Time Out has called "global agit-pop". According to lead singer Rupa, who is also practicing physician, Rupa and the band highlight “life’s accidental beauty and surging joy as well as their inexorable partner: human suffering.” They join us in studio to play from their latest album, Este Mundo.
Rehabilitating Disco
Did disco really suck?
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