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 series of anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movements 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 Elaklania and was at least partially responsible for some of the biggest changes in the country’s political history.

Sparked originally by the emergence of disco, the authoritarian rule of President Juan Esteban Cazalla, and his national policy of Nueva iluminación which banned disco music for its “impure qualities” as the movement spread it gradually became less about disco and more about various social issues which the state had not addressed since its inception. Civil rights, feminism, and sexual liberation became more prominent within the movement until entirely new movements were established, most notably being Citizens United.

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.