Editing Disco (section)

==Etymology==
The term "disco" is shorthand for the word ''discothèque'', a French word for "library of phonograph records" derived from "bibliothèque". The word "discotheque" had the same meaning in English in the 1950s. "Discothèque" became used in French for a type of nightclub in Paris, after they had resorted to playing records during the Nazi occupation in the early 1940s. Some clubs used it as their proper name. In 1960, it was also used to describe a Parisian nightclub in an English magazine.

The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' defines ''Discotheque'' as "A dance hall, nightclub, or similar venue where recorded music is played for dancing, typically equipped with a large dance floor, an elaborate system of flashing coloured lights, and a powerful amplified sound system. " Its earliest example is use as the name of a particular venue in 1952, and other examples date from 1960 onwards. The entry is annotated as "Now somewhat dated".<ref>{{Cite OED|term=Discotheque, 2.|2288895026}}</ref> It defines ''Disco'' as "A genre of strongly rhythmical pop music mainly intended for dancing in nightclubs and particularly popular in the mid to late 1970s.", with use from 1975 onwards, describing the origin of the word as a shortened form of ''discotheque''.<ref>{{Cite OED|term=Disco 1b.|1075575134}}</ref>

In the summer of 1964, a short sleeveless dress called the "discotheque dress" was briefly very popular in the United States. The earliest known use for the abbreviated form "disco" described this dress and has been found in ''[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]'' on July 12, 1964; ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine used it in September of the same year to describe Los Angeles nightclubs.<ref name="Oxford">{{cite web |last=Hilton |first=Denny |date=October 19, 2012 |title=The birth of disco |url=https://blog.oup.com/2012/10/birth-of-disco-oed-appeals/ |access-date=December 21, 2020 |website=OUPblog |publisher=Oxford University Press |archive-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027125728/https://blog.oup.com/2012/10/birth-of-disco-oed-appeals/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Vince Aletti]] was one of the first to describe disco as a sound or a music genre. He wrote the 13 September 1973 feature article ''Discotheque Rock '72: Paaaaarty!'' that appeared in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/1072|title=Playing favourites: Vince Aletti|website=Resident Advisor|access-date=February 8, 2019|archive-date=December 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229053804/https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/1072|url-status=dead}}</ref>