12 jul 1979 ano - Disco Demolition Night

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Radio dj Steve Dahl organizes a "Disco Demolition" in between games of a doubleheader between the White Sox and Tigers at Comsikey Park in Chicago. The event features the ceremonial destruction of bins filled with disco records in centerfield. After exploding the records, a near riot envelops the stadium and renders the filed unplayable for the second game. The White Sox were forced to forfeit the game. (The Sox finished the season 14 games backs BTW).

The event is now seen as a demonstration of working class resentment against elitist pretensions. Like Steve Dahl, the particpants were mostly straight, white, working class young men. Many of them expressed grievances against the exclusivity of disco night clubs, the perception that disco was mass produced without "real" musicians, and disco's roots in gay nightclubs on the coasts. Dahl has denied any anti-gay or racist overtones in his rants against disco, but those claims seem disingenuous.

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