Open Your Ears to the Primitivist Murk (New York Times)

She has sung pop duets with Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli, but Donna Summer will always be known as the Queen of Disco. A Nashville, Tenn.-area resident, Summer has written country songs for Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton. Her 1977 hit "I Feel Love" was a forerunner of techno and new wave.