He felt like it was just ‘that Black stuff,’” Vince Lawrence said. But those attendees of “Disco Demolition Night” unknowingly contributed to the birth of a Blacker, gayer genre: house music. “I was ...

"Disco: Music, Movies, and Mania under the Mirror Ball ... when disco records were blown up at a baseball double-header in Chicago in 1979, was really a show of what we now call “toxic ...