Dancing to the Italian 4/4 in 2024

Introducing our newsletter about Italian disco culture in the late 70s and early 80s

Italian Disco Stories is a curatorial, journalistic, and educational project that aims to shine the spotlight on Italian disco music. It is helmed by music producer, scholar and vinyl collector Beppe Savoni (aka Disco Bambino) and visual-culture and music journalist Angelica Frey. Both Savoni and Frey are Italian-born and U.S. based. 

A thing Angelica always hated as a journalist was the constant need to answer the dreaded “why now?” question whenever she had ideas to pitch. Having to justify one’s interest feels like doing some groveling and asking for permission to do something. For the sake of transparency, though, here we go. 

It’s not hard to argue that nostalgia has been the main cultural currency for the past two decades, and, in the case of disco music, it provides solace from the ills and instability of contemporary society. Disco always celebrated freedom of expressio…