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Re:Defining the ’90s Music Canon by 082349872349872 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @04:14AM (#23925239)
> b) ethnicity i.e. White/African American/Latino have quite a different slot of pop culture references in the US, much less pronounced for example in UK or Canada.

I wonder if UK and canada might be more similar to europe, where disco (as a popular culture which belonged to all those ethnicities) never really died in the same way it did in the states, killed by spontaneous popular uprising?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night

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Re:Defining the ’90s Music Canon by anthk on Thursday July 23, 2020 @04:35AM (#23925365)
In Spain, specially in the East Coast, disco was replaced by techno/makina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mákina
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Re:Defining the ’90s Music Canon by 082349872349872 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:22AM (#23925580)
TIL about "X-Ta Si, X-Ta No". (and, in a cousin thread, that "mall pop" is a genre name. Does it mean music played in malls, or music performed in malls? Do malls even still exist?)

Maybe HN'ers with young children should try and convince them that the world really was low-rez back then and only achieved current resolution this century?

https://i.imgur.com/4rPGp.jpg

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