Disco Revolt

Disco Revolt
Revuelta Disco (Isbellan)

Hajo Night at the Club El Elawe, c. 1975
Date	Early 1960s to Early 1970s
Location	Elaklania
Outcome	Cultural movements Vida Nocturna Protest movements Concrete Movement Citizens United Elawe Peoples Movement

Disco Revolt (Isbellan: Revuelta Disco) was a anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that spawned various political movements in its wake. Based around disco music and the night life of modern cities in Elaklania during the 60s and 70s, Disco Revolt was the first major anti-establishment movement in Elaklanian history and was at least partially responsible for some of the biggest changes in the country’s political history.

Sparked by the emergence of Disco, the authoritarian rule of President Juan Esteban Cazalla, and his national policy of Nueva iluminación which banned various kinds of music for impure qualities. As the movement became more popular it gradually became less about Disco and more about social issues and criticism of the state and its ideology. Civil rights, feminism, and sexual liberation became prominent subjects within the movement which eventually led to the formation of new organizations made to promote them, the most significant being that of Citizens United.

Name

“Disco Revolt” as a term for the Elaklanian counterculture movements of the late 20th century only appeared in early 1960 when the Disco Club “Gran Tono” released a single of the same name. The song by Marco Maroto would have light anti-establishment themes unlike later Disco Revolt music but would heavily criticize the president, when the song grew in popularity it would eventually be brought before the party in the National Congress as an example of moral decay.

Many would attribute the song to the ban on Disco winning it even more popularity, the name of the song would be used by later bands on numerous songs and albums, until it would be used so often that it would eventually become synonymous with the counterculture in Elaklania as a whole.

Background

Juan Esteban Cazalla, c. 1960

With the end of the Cesyllean Nuclear Crisis the Jango Era would also seemingly begin to come to an end, with the successor of the Jangoist President, Mauricio Ocampo, Juan Esteban Cazalla announcing his own plans for a new national policy that would deviate heavily from Jango’s vision. Called the "New Enlightment" or Nueva iluminación, the policy would abandon most of Jangos easy going social policies instead tightening the authoritarian grip of the state to prevent outside ideas from gaining popularity, an affront to what Cazalla saw as the perfect state that Jango had built.

Television, music, art, and theater would all be targeted by Cazalla, under Nueva iluminación they would be expected to follow a set of guidelines set up by the PRN these guidelines would be made to amplify positive attitudes towards the country, party, and its ideology.

As a result many foreign albums would be banned and made nearly impossible to get it, the Elaklanian musical scene would be enraged and the response especially in the Disco scene would be clear. Reacting to new songs calling out Nueva iluminación, Cazalla would heavily restrict Disco making it banned in all but name.

City by city

In response to the ban illegal smuggling of Disco music would become commonplace. Albums from Aosta, Druermark, and Nutarra would become highly influential with their socialist anti-authoritarian style influencing the underground scene of Disco which would only grow stronger as the music beat the government censors and become more popular.

While originally only in the Capital of Puerto Bontia, underground Disco clubs would eventually appear in every major city in the country, while some had better luck than others their appearance would have massive ramifications eventually making Disco Revolt what it is known as today.

Political movement

As Disco Revolt became more affiliated with students and anti government radicals in 1974 the political edge of the movement would start to bear fruit, protests, strikes, and even politically motivated attacks would be planned in underground discothèque with their status as the hive mind of anything anti-government being sealed.