00:00Welcome to MEDIEN TV and ZOOM in this musical style chronicle.
00:14Little brother of solo and funk, disco was born in the United States in the early 1970s,
00:22but among its parents, several artists and French producers, far from a precursor to French touch electro.
00:29An exhibition in Paris recreates this vague disco, a soundtrack of liberation and emancipation.
00:36In the middle of Andy Warhol's stars and flashy costumes,
00:39the disco exhibition I'm Coming Out at the Philharmonie de Paris
00:44immerses the visitor in the shadow of a nightclub where the hymns resonate,
00:49which make the dancefloor of Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor vibrate,
00:54and I Feel Love by Donna Summer.
00:57Let's listen to Sheila, the French singer-queen of disco in the 1970s.
01:27A rhythm, etc., we make a society change, because disco is not only music,
01:33it is the change of a society that comes out, that exists,
01:36while it has never existed before, that it has always lived in the shadows.
01:39And that's the strength of disco, except for the fact that it dances, that everyone is happy.
01:44It's a party, and this party was worldwide.
01:46In all the countries of the world, at the same time, we played the same music.
01:49And it was, everyone let go.
01:52Suddenly, the people who were hidden showed themselves
01:55and were no longer afraid of the position they had, or what they were, or vice versa.
02:00There is not a party in France, in Navarre, anywhere, even in family parties,
02:06where there is not a moment where there is disco.
02:08Everyone needs it because people like to party.
02:11It's good to party, I think.
02:13So of course it will always exist.
02:15Even if the music changes, it evolves.
02:18Look at rock, there is always rock.
02:20These are pioneer musics that make it correspond to a time and that it will always exist.
02:26And it was in the early 1970s, in the New York underground,
02:30that the first days of the disco unfolded.
02:32In search of sound for their evening, young DJs of Italian origin,
02:36Samourach from the soul of Philadelphia,
02:39who gnaw little by little strings and stretch their pieces
02:42to prolong the pleasure on the dancefloor, where the bodies free themselves
02:47and where one can now dance alone.
02:50The origins of the disco are deeply rooted in American black culture
02:54because the vast majority of artists who made history with this music
02:59came from the soul, jazz and funk.
03:02Let's listen to Jean-Yves Lelou, he is the curator of the exhibition in Paris.
03:08The disco must be rehabilitated.
03:09Today it has far fewer haters, as we say today.
03:13It has suffered a lot, in a form of cultural contempt,
03:18for a very long time.
03:22I think this exhibition will better explain its context of emergence, its richness.
03:28Honestly, if you listen to the soundtrack of Dimitri from Paris,
03:32the DJ who mixed the soundtrack of this exhibition,
03:34it shows a huge talent.
03:37These are really great musicians, guitarists, bassists,
03:40string players who worked on the production of this music,
03:45especially in the first African-American part of the music.
03:51At its creation, the disco then gives rise to an impressive wedding.
03:56In Germany, the producer Giorgio Moroder, revered by Daft Punk,
04:00composed Donna Summer's Love to Love You Baby in 1975,
04:05while his compatriot Frank Farian created the band Boney M.
04:09On the French side, the drummer and composer Marc Seronne
04:12encircles a more experimental dimension with Love in C Minor in 1976,
04:18which hit the U.S. after landing by chance in the middle of a Barry White sale.
04:24After the Cultural Revolution in 1968,
04:27people wanted to do everything to avoid looking like each other.
04:32This gave a lot of audacity.
04:34Musically, the DNA of the disco will evolve
04:37with the appearance of the synths,
04:39but remains marked by the beat, called For On The Floor,
04:43a big box that scans all the time of the measure
04:46and which will later irrigate house music.
04:49We listen again to Jean-Yves Lelou, he is the curator of the exhibition.
04:53Rehabilitation is necessary, indeed,
04:55both for its musicality, its richness of orchestration,
04:58and also for the power of its messages
05:01and the emancipation it brought to many populations,
05:04and not only the most minoritized populations,
05:07but also the 1970s.
05:10It is a time that helped many people to find a voice,
05:14a certain form of emancipation.
05:16It is also the music of sexual emancipation of the 1970s.
05:19The disco has a lot of resonance today,
05:22especially since it suffered, at the end of the 1970s,
05:25a violent backlash, a conservative backlash
05:28vis-à-vis this music that was often, at the end of the 1970s,
05:33considered perhaps too black, too feminine, too gay.
05:37And of course, it echoes the debate today,
05:40the backlash of far-right activists,
05:43who would certainly see a return of the disco.
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06:24We are sincere, we sing and we dance all the time.
06:30Today and tomorrow,
06:34Today and tomorrow, we will hold each other by the hand.
06:41If one day we are separated.
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