Disco music originated from subjugated groups and became the template for later dance genres

Evidence

Disco was a music that grew out of the convergence of a number of subjugated groups. It was a music made by and for gays, black people and women, and — like most postwar popular music, it was overwhelmingly produced by the working class. Chic’s Nile Rodgers — surely the most important producer and sonic conceptualist of the late Seventies and early Eighties — had been a member of the Black Panthers as a teenager. Disco provided the template for the successive waves of dance music in the Eighties and Nineties, including house, techno, rave and garage. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1384

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Fisher’s broader recurring argument about the British Seventies and musical lineage that likely appears elsewhere in K-Punk.