Packet 3: Bonus 12

Steve Dahl complained about having to “defend [himself] as a racist homophobe” in his 2016 book about an event he organised in opposition to this music style. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this style of music, whose records were blown up in a crate during a 1979 “Demolition Night” Dahl organised at Comiskey Park. The movie Saturday Night Fever helped popularize this style.
ANSWER: disco music [accept Disco Demolition Night]
[10e] Dahl organised Disco Demolition Night as a promotion for this baseball team. Eight members of this Chicago team were banned for life after conspiring to fix the 1919 World Series.
ANSWER: the Chicago White Sox [prompt on Sox; prompt on Black Sox with “what team were the players dubbed ‘Black Sox’ actually part of?”; reject “Cubs” or “Chicago Cubs”]
[10h] This Chicago-based TV show helped popularise disco by regularly featuring acts like Donna Summer and Kool and the Gang in the 1970s. This music program, one of the first national shows produced by and for Black Americans, was hosted by its creator, Don Cornelius.
ANSWER: Soul Train
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