By the time the Bronx was burning in the late 1970s, so was disco music in the face of social demolition. But something else emerged from the ashes of urban decay, and the syncopated rhythms of yesteryear — then tabooed and associated with Black, Latino, and gay society — would serve as a springboard not only for a new American... read full story
"It's like this: The South got somethin' to say."