Original sentence: Disco Demolition Night preceded, and may have helped precipitate, the decline of disco in late 1979; some scholars and disco artists have debated whether the event was expressive of racism and homophobia
Edited sentence: Disco Demolition Night preceded, and may have helped precipitate, the decline of disco in late 1979; some scholars, disco artists and media (particularly Greg Gumble) have debated whether the event reflected a mini boiling-over of anti-establishment passions of the 1970s