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DISCO!!!!!!!!
TIME PERIOD: Late 1970's
LOCATION: All around the USA!!!!!!!

     Around the late 1970's the largest scenes were located in Miami, San Francisco, and most prominently New York City. The DJ's would blast the music through PA systems, and would play long single records in order to keep the clubbers "dancing all night long." Some of the most high popular disco clubs would feature elaborate lighting fixtures of which would beam to the beat of the music. In the month of October in 1975 the most notable discos were identified as "Leviticus" in New York City, "The Library" in Atlanta, and "Studio One" in Los Angeles. One club in particular known as "Studio 54 played a major role in the growth of nightclub music as well as the growth of the disco fad!!!!

DANCING IN DISCO!!!!!!!

-   In the early years of the Disco phenomena, dancers would take a "hang loose" approach to their movements. Popular disco dances included "the bump" "the boogaloo" "the penguin" "the watergate" and the "robot" 

                                 Let's Dance the Twist!!!!

TIME PERIOD:  1960's

LOCATION: Various

- The Twist, a dance inspired mainly by the 1960's rock and role era, was the craze of the decade. It was popular amoung the youth, at the same time waslooked down upon by critics who fealt the dance was too provocotive.

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GO-GO DANCING!!!!!

TIME PERIOD: 1960's
LOCATION: New York City

- Originating at the Peppermint Lounge, the era of go-go dancing arose when women at the lounge would get up on the tables and dance the Twist. Many of these women would wear Go-Go boots , and considering the number of these women was so high,  bartenders would start to hire them as entertainment for the regular costumers.

- The dancers were called go-go dancers, based on the phrase "go-go-go" for a high energy person (influenced by the french word  à gogo meaning "galore" or "in abundance", as well as the earlier french word la gogue, meaning "happiness" or "joy".)

TIME PERIOD: 1962

LOCATION: New York City

- The Peppermint Lounge in NYC becomes popular, where the everpopular Go-Go Dance and Twist craze originated. The establishment had a long mahogany bar running along the length of one side, had many mirrors, and a dance floor located in the back of the bar.

- The bar could hold a capacity of

aproximately 178 people.

A POST WORLD WAR II REVOLUTION OF NIGHTCLUBS IN EUROPE!!!

TIME PERIOD: 1947-
- Moving forward from the Juke box, a club founded by Régine Zylberberg, known as the "Whisky à Gogo", replaced the Juke box, with the use of two turntables (of which she had DJ'd).
TIME PERIOD: Late 1950's
- London's SOHO district introduced, the ever famous Les Enfants Terribles,  The club catered to the young public (mainly made up of illegal french and itallian workers). Though not a standard nighclub of the time (for they did not card), was still a happening spot!
TIME PERIOD: Early 1960's
- British entrepreneur, Mark Birley, founded a member's only discotheque (nightclub), called Annabel's, located, as well in London.

TIME PERIOD: 1933-1945

LOCATION: Nazi Germany

Bebop, Jazz, and the everpopular Jitterbug (also known as the lindy hop) dance, were banned by the Nazi's as being American influences. Members of the French Underground (a movement group against the nazi's) , therefore would  meet at basement dance clubs (normally underground) known as Discotheques. Here they would dance to swing music, (played on a single turntable operated by a DJ), hidden safetly away from the oppression of the Nazis.