Discotheque

The name of this music has been derived from the term discotheque, as this music was generally played at the nightclubs where people used to dance all night. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To understand the depth of the cultural divide at work here, consider that most Americans under age seventy-five would find even the idea of pronouncing the entire word discotheque too time-consuming. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

According to Donald Clarke, author of the Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the modern use of the word disco originates from the French word "discotheque," which means "record library" in French. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was hosted in a room downstairs from the main dancehall at Rooftops on Sauchiehall Street, an establishment that still described itself as a 'discotheque' in those days. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)

Disco comes from the word "discotheque;" a term used to describe the nightclubs people went to during the 60s and 70s. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The sun was shining for us that day so we got a boat out to an island where we docked for lunch and a snorkel before heading back to the mainland in the evening for the 'discotheque'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And over the postwar decades in which the discotheque has existed, and with the advent of file-sharing protocols, however piratical, exceedingly rare is that American who would take steps to inquire, say through a local library, whether and under which conditions certain recordings may be removed from archives for a listen. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

In his ground-breaking September 1973 Rolling Stone story, Vince Aletti traced its origins in the underground return of the discotheque, where the hardcore dance crowd – blacks, Latinos, gays – was. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Hitman and Her could simply have satisfied itself with displaying the cold harsh reality of any discotheque from 1975 to 1988 – Club 18-30 games like putting chipolatas down the diamanté Speedos of "the dancers" Eugene & Storm or passing custard-filled balloons between the breasts of dead-eyed girls with Bonnie Tyler hair. ❋ Unknown (2011)

That strike came in retaliation for the bombing of a German discotheque in which two U.S servicemen were killed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The playwright-to-be is also exposed as a marvelous dancer by his friends, author/producer Dominick Dunn and actor Robert Wagner, as confirmed by footage from The Daisy -- an exclusive, members-only, Hollywood discotheque -- where one finds McDowall's guests out of their swimsuits and dressed, instead, to the nines. ❋ Penelope Andrew (2011)

Later rooms and examples in a 25-minute video on the history of the genre feature scenes of family togetherness at the dinner table and around a backyard swimming pool, arrays of puppies and kittens and babies, travel scenes from Portugal and Peru, snow and water sports, and a discotheque full of clean-cut frugers. ❋ Richard B. Woodward (2011)

Gadhafi, struck by U.S. airstrikes in 1986 after Libya was implicated in a deadly Berlin discotheque bombing. ❋ Sam Dagher (2011)

There's a lot of rubble at Bab Al Azizia -- the US bombed the compound in April 1986 in response to the terrorist bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, which killed two US servicemen and was credited to Gaddafi based on telex intercepts in which Libyan agents in Tripoli offered congratulations to comrades at the Libyan embassy in East Berlin for a job well done. ❋ Michael Bronner (2011)