LibGuides: Disco Music: Additional Disco Resources

Finding Articles on Disco

Disco has been the subject of scholarly articles in fields as diverse as popular music studies, cultural studies, dance, and sociology, as well as many articles in the popular music press. Searching some of the databases below, or searching in BGSU's Summon academic search engine will yield many results.

Academic Search Complete
A multidisciplinary, full-text database that includes scholarly journal articles on all subjects, as well as magazines, books, book chapters, reports, conference proceedings, and more.
Coverage: 1887 to present; most full text is 1975 to present.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Indexing, abstracts and full text for journals in communication studies, covering topics such as journalism, mass media, and communicative disorders.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
Index to dissertations written in musicology since 1984.
Independent Voices
An open access collection of alternative press material.
JSTOR
Over a thousand full-text scholarly journals and books covering all subjects in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. History, economics, art, literature, and mathematics are particularly strong. All journal titles are archived back to the first issue, many dating from the early 1800s.

Disco in MLBSSA Archival Collections

Information about disco artists or record labels might also appear in the following collections:

Popular Music Artist Marketing Materials
Collection contains promotional and marketing files, mostly for popular and rock music artists and bands, including promotional materials from record labels, some clippings from newspapers and magazines, promotional photographs, some press releases, and other ephemeral marketing materials. Collection number: MUSIC-037
Record Auction, Catalogs, and Communication Collection
Collection consists mainly of catalogs from record distributors, publishers, and some record stores; some of these catalogs were intended for individual consumers or collectors, but others were for the proprietors of record stores. Some folders also contain press releases, communication from labels and distributors, newsletters from labels, and new release notices. Collection number: MUSIC-002

Selected web resources

The 35 best disco songs ever
From Billboard magazine, Giorgio Moroder, an influential disco producer, chooses his favorite disco songs.
Disco Demolition Night Podcast
From the podcast You're Wrong About, two journalists review media coverage and scholarship on disco and Disco Demolition Night.
The Rise of Disco Lesson Plan
Also contains alignments with several K-12 learning standards.
The Eeriness of the 2020 Disco Revival
By Spencer Kornhaber in the Atlantic.
Speed of Sound Podcast
A music podcast hosted by Steve Greenberg, a Grammy Award winning record producer, that had a series of episodes on disco.