{"id":426,"date":"2014-04-13T20:20:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T20:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=426"},"modified":"2024-05-22T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:19:17","slug":"rising-ashes-disco-urbana-champaigns-music-scene-1980s-early-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2014\/04\/13\/rising-ashes-disco-urbana-champaigns-music-scene-1980s-early-1990s\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising from the Ashes of Disco: Urbana-Champaign\u2019s Music Scene during the 1980s and Early 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Mark-Rubel-1984.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4411\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Mark-Rubel-1984-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Mark-Rubel-1984-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Mark-Rubel-1984.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Gallery Talk<\/strong><br \/>\nFeaturing Tom Broeske, Paul Faber, Jim Hewitt, Rose Marshack, Della Perrone, Mark Rubel, Paul Sabuco, Phil Strang, and Rick Valentin<br \/>\n<strong>April 19, 2014<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>3:00-4:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\nSousa Archives and Center for American Music<br \/>\n1103 S. Sixth Street, Champaign, Illinois<br \/>\nAdmission: <strong>Free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the conclusion of the United States\u2019 involvement in the Vietnam War in 1974, America\u2019s popular music tastes began to shift away from the excessive psychedelic rock performances of the late 1960s and early 1970s.\u00a0 During the late 1970s disco briefly reigned supreme throughout most of the country including Urbana-Champaign, and with it many rock and roll musicians and their fans felt their music was being painfully silenced by disco\u2019s repetitively syncopated beat.\u00a0 However on July 12, 1979 a riot broke out among disgruntled rock and roll fans at Comiskey Park during a double-header baseball game, and this date is now considered the \u201cday disco died.\u201d By September 22, 1979 no disco melody appeared among the US Top 10 charts, and by 1980 live rock and roll performance was returned to America\u2019s center stage.\u00a0 Join Tom Broeske, Paul Faber, Jim Hewitt, Rose Marshack, Della Perrone, Mark Rubel, Paul Sabuco, Phil Strang, and Rick Valentin in a gallery talkback about some of Urbana-Champaign\u2019s local rock and roll bands and musicians, music venues, recording studios, and record shops during the 1980s and early 1990s.\u00a0 The general public is invited to attend this free-form discussion to learn more about our community\u2019s vital local music scene and its influence on American popular music.\u00a0 After the gallery talkback visitors may tour the exhibit of Della Perrone\u2019s photographs, \u201c<em>Live from the Crossroads: A Snapshot of Champaign-Urbana\u2019s Local Music Scene 1981-1986.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>For more information call 217-333-4577.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Gallery Talk Featuring Tom Broeske, Paul Faber, Jim Hewitt, Rose Marshack, Della Perrone, Mark Rubel, Paul Sabuco, Phil Strang, and Rick Valentin April 19, 2014 3:00-4:30pm Sousa Archives and Center for American Music 1103 S. Sixth Street, Champaign, Illinois Admission: Free With the conclusion of the United States\u2019 involvement in the Vietnam War in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-special-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4732,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}