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While Steely Dan and Frank Zappa strike me as tributaries pretty distant from the mainstream Miller was trying to trace, I think you're correctly suspicious of disco's absence--and not just as a high-point of decadence.
While absorbency did not vary, the softness factor is significant--the downright decadence of the Kleenex ColdCare range makes everything else seem almost abrasive.
Where is disco, surely as reliable an indicator of musical decadence as the Sex Pistols?
It's the most jittery of periods, both exhibitionistic and paranoid, and David Berkowitz--the self-proclaimed Son of Sam--emerges from the ocean of decadence like a toxic monster, a puritanical avenger.
Besides the works of the 14th-century masters Duccio, Pietro, and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, as well as Simone Martini, see Siena’s 16th-century Mannerists, painting at a time when the Renaissance teetered on the brink of effete decadence: Beccafumi’s dreamy Birth of Mary and a highly decorative Christ at the Column by Sodoma.