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Nightclubs are venues for drinks, dances, and other forms of entertainment, which are generally open to clubbers or people who go there, in the evenings. With prominent dance floors, DJ kiosks, and occasional live performances, nightclubs are easily distinguishable from bars, pubs, and taverns which are primarily alcohol joints, sometimes with some music in the background. Nightclubs on the other hand, are trendy places, with hip-swinging, at times, even head-banging music, doled out from a DJ's console through some public announcement systems, accompanied at times, with stand-up comedians, strippers, or live bands. Popular nightclubs are usually distinguished mostly by the kind of music played there, which could include anything from house music, heavy metal, and techno to the genres of salsa, hip-hop, and garage funk. Lighting and other effects are crucial nightclub features, as they improve the aura of the venue, and set the mood for groovy dance platforms. Flashes of colored lights, light beams that move apparently in a random fashion, effects of laser and strobe varieties of light, mirror-covered balls that throw lights and patterns on the walls, tools emanating foam and smoke into the atmosphere, are various novel ways of fine tuning the clubbers' experience. The hours when nightclubs operate differs between localities, cities, countries, and geographical regions, depending upon governmental and religious norms. Some places with rigorous alcohol limits, might have a rule regarding the legal closing time of nightclubs, while some areas can operate the club till any time of the day or night. During the early 1900s', nightclubs beat a hasty retreat or merely operated illegally because of the US Prohibition, which was lifted in 1933. The fad came back, with distinct venues for white and black audiences. In the 50s the concept of a juke box and live music performance arrived. However, the prototype of today's disco must have come from Paris' Whisky à Gogo club, which brought forth for the first time, a special floor for dance enthusiasts, and two turntables, so the music would go on and on. The specialties of the 70s would be elaborate lighting systems that would pulsate with the beat of the music, schools that taught lessons on nightclub dances such as the hustle, cha cha, and touch dancing, and characteristic disco fashions of flowing Halston garments for the girls and shiny polyester Qiana garbs for the boys. The disco era of this time also ushered in the recreational drug aspect to the concept of clubbing, brought homosexuals out of the closet, and set the stage for much seduction to take place on the dance floor. With the advent of the 80s this changed under the new Romantic upheaval in New York, London, and continental Europe, when along with the rising popularity of Boy George, Culture Club, and reggae bands, young men clubbers sometimes put on make-up while women disco enthusiasts started wearing men's clothes. From the 90s onwards till now, the music influence in nightclubs or discs has changed more towards an inclination of house music, hip-hop, techno, trance or electro. A very new concept in nightclubs is the employment of both video and audio mixing by DJs, in which huge screens near the dance floor show videos related to the ongoing piece of music at the venue For more information on nightclubs, visit http://clubmicroblog.com and http://nightlifemicroblog.com
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Author: John Parks