December 1977: Number 4 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music
Released on 16 December 1977, Saturday Night Fever was the film that broke disco in both senses: it popularised and developed the form at the same time as it froze a vibrant and creative subculture. Saturday Night Fever made disco ubiquitous in 1978. It became a fad – with the inevitable backlash.
The statistics tell the story. The film took more than $3m in the first weekend, eventually going on to gross in the region of $237m; it became the fourth highest grossing movie of 1977. The soundtrack album included six Us No 1s and it topped the charts for 24 weeks in the Us, 18 weeks in the UK.
In fact, disco had been building for several years. In his ground-breaking September 1973 Rolling Stone story, Vince Aletti traced its origins in the underground return of the discotheque, "where the hardcore dance crowd – blacks,...
Released on 16 December 1977, Saturday Night Fever was the film that broke disco in both senses: it popularised and developed the form at the same time as it froze a vibrant and creative subculture. Saturday Night Fever made disco ubiquitous in 1978. It became a fad – with the inevitable backlash.
The statistics tell the story. The film took more than $3m in the first weekend, eventually going on to gross in the region of $237m; it became the fourth highest grossing movie of 1977. The soundtrack album included six Us No 1s and it topped the charts for 24 weeks in the Us, 18 weeks in the UK.
In fact, disco had been building for several years. In his ground-breaking September 1973 Rolling Stone story, Vince Aletti traced its origins in the underground return of the discotheque, "where the hardcore dance crowd – blacks,...
- 6/15/2011
- by Jon Savage
- The Guardian - Film News
Jack (Brady Corbet) and Louis (David Call) reside with their ailing mother (Karen Young) in the thick of the wilderness somewhere around the Mississippi-Louisiana border -- the faint flicker of their oh so weak television signal is a brilliant metaphor for just how little modernity has infiltrated their family’s primitive back-country ways. As far as we can tell, they live completely off the land and practically off the grid.
- 11/21/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Parc de L'Imaginaire presents :
Desjardins Jazz Festival
From July 21 to 24, every evening at 7:30 p.m.
Outdoors shows, canceled in case of rain
View our entire program at : http://www.limagier.qc.ca/english/parc/program2010.htm
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July 21
Karen Young and Éric Auclair
Where jazz meets with electronic music, the musical collaboration of Karen Young and Éric Auclair represents the coming together of two generations who bring ...
Desjardins Jazz Festival
From July 21 to 24, every evening at 7:30 p.m.
Outdoors shows, canceled in case of rain
View our entire program at : http://www.limagier.qc.ca/english/parc/program2010.htm
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July 21
Karen Young and Éric Auclair
Where jazz meets with electronic music, the musical collaboration of Karen Young and Éric Auclair represents the coming together of two generations who bring ...
- 7/22/2010
- by Administrator
- CultureMagazine.ca
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