Disco dominated the era. Along with this subgenres of Rock emerged including Glam, Hard, Heavy Metal and Punk which all achieved various amounts of success. The term “Disco” is shorthand for the word discothèque, a French word for “library of phonograph records”. EThe culture emerged in the 1970s from the United States’ urban nightlife scene. A mixture of music from venues popular with LGBTQ Americans, Italian Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, and black American. Philadelphia and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s were the hot spots of the musics’ dance craze. The well-known artists included the ABBA, Bee Gees, Blondie, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Earth Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band, Thelma Houston, and the Village People. Disco clubs were also associated with promiscuity as a reflection of the sexual revolution of this era in popular history and film, in particularly Saturday Night Fever (1977).