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The Legend of Cool Disco Dan (2012)

Audience Score
80
The Legend of Cool Disco Dan
NR 1 hr 26 minJan 1st, 2012Documentary
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The Legend of Cool Disco Dan is the story of black Washington DC told from the perspective of Cool Disco Dan starting with his birth during the civil rights era and follows his life parallel with the rise of GoGo music through the 1980s which is the unheard but yet dominant urban music of DC and also local DC politics with Marion Barrys rise and fall Despite ending up homeless Cool Disco Dan used graffiti to escape the social problems DC had in the 1980s when things turned violent and became known as the Murder Capital of the United States Cool Disco Dan ends up as a cult character of DC and his name becomes a symbol of survival during DCs most trying years
DirectorJoseph Pattisall