- Network: PBS
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 18, 2024
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This one really is a feast. It’s a history lesson with an immaculate soundtrack and it is about so much more than disco.
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Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution emphasizes the beats and songs that built a classic sound, and the communities, often marginalized or under-represented, who did the hard work – and all of the dancing! – to bring it to life by the light of a turning glitterball, before the music ever went slick and mainstream.
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Not every artist is covered or great song heard. But “Soundtrack” hits all the important points over its three hours, cogently presented and mostly a lot of fun — a mutually illuminating mix of anecdotal reminiscence, musical analysis, historical accounting and political theory.
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The final segment, about disco’s huge cultural impact, rather peters out, but no matter. There’s still much to enjoy in this spangled homage to anarchy on the dancefloor.