postdisco

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A form of post-disco — A genre of dance music formulated in the late 1970s, after a backlash against disco.

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Meanings

adjectivepostdisco (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of post-disco.

    Tina Turner […] refashioned herself into a postdisco diva.

    2008, Burton W. Peretti, Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music, page 162
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    Well, jungle emerged from rave culture, which fused late sixties psychedelic utopianism with the postdisco music that came out of Chicago and Detroit.

    1999, Karen Kelly, Evelyn McDonnell, Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth, page 203

    The intention here isn't to situate Goa as a locus of industrial music's history per se; open musical attitudes had flourished earlier in Europe and America in postdisco clubs […]

    2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 245

Origin

From post- + disco.

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APA

postdisco. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postdisco

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“postdisco.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postdisco. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postdisco,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postdisco.

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