Disco is Dead (Because of Woke)

Binchtopia

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The girlies welcome the summer months by investigating a most troubling query: why is nobody partying anymore? We used to rave in underground warehouses and dance all night at Studio 54, now we stand in line for hours to be bored at the club clutching a vodka soda. They try to get to the bottom of what went wrong by looking back — from the invention of the gas lamp that made dancing all night a possibility to the disco demolition that brought in a regressive wave against dance music. Plus, the very first Binchtopia listener survey! Digressions include a disturbing trend of BORGtopia and the birth of Binchtopia HQ.

SOURCES:

A Glimpse into the Glamorous World of Studio 54

Disco: Afro-American Vernacular Performance

Disco Demolition: the night they tried to crush black music

“Do You Think I’m Disco?”

How UK Ravers Raged Against the Ban

I Feel Love: Disco and Its Discontents

In an isolated world, humans need to dance together more than ever – but we’re running out of places to do it

New York Literally Invented Nightlife

Nightlife in the City

Partying Feels Different Now

Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain by Ed Gillett

Studio 54 opens in New York City | April 26, 1977

The Death of the Party

The Story of the Windrush

This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza Mclamb and edited by Allison Hagan.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Binch Topia.
0:07.0	We hope you enjoy your stay.
0:15.0	Hi everybody, welcome back to Binchtopia.
0:17.5	Hello and welcome back.
0:19.5	You guys, if it's sounding a little echo in here,
0:21.7	that's because we're at the new binch topia
0:24.0	office and we're working on getting furniture for it so and soundproofing.
0:29.7	But right now we're in a cavern. This is an immersive cavernous bin Shopia episode.
0:34.8	But we are in person and we are together.
0:36.8	It's so exciting you guys. Thanks to your beautiful support.
0:40.8	We have finally after three years been able to stop recording on our
0:44.8	floor with wires tangled everywhere that cats are chewing on and that we're
0:48.0	tripping over and we actually are going to take it to a place of table.
0:51.7	We're taking it to a place of table. We're taking to a place of table and chair.
0:55.2	Table and chair.
0:56.0	We're even taking it to a place of possibly airplaying?
0:58.6	Yes.
0:59.2	Airplaying things.
1:00.0	Yeah, we're going to want to put, you know, with our new video episodes, we're hopefully,
1:03.5	you know, going to film some of those this summer, you know, we want that TV in the back once we say,
1:08.0	oh my God, did you see that meme?
1:09.5	Then we can actually pull it up.
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