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Music genre

This article is about the music genre. For the entertainment venue, see Nightclub. For other uses, see Disco (disambiguation).

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.

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Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopatedbasslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars.

Discothèques as a venue were mostly a French invention, imported to the United States with the opening of Le Club, a members-only restaurant and nightclub located at East 55th Street in Manhattan, by French expatriate Olivier Coquelin, on New Year's Eve ^[5]

Disco music as a genre started as a mixture of music from venues popular among African-Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, gay Americans, and Italian Americans^[6] in New York City (especially Brooklyn) and Philadelphia during the late s to the mid-to-late s.

Disco can be