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To this day, the cultural impact of house music continues to inspire new generations of fans, music, technology, and innovation. Let’s explore how this niche underground sound originated and how it became globally recognized as the soundtrack to modern dance music culture.
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 120-130 beats per minute as a re-emergence of 1970s disco. [10] It originated in the Black queer community in Chicago. [11]
Mar 2, 2023 · That "genre" is house music, and it was indeed invented by Black and primarily gay DJs in Chicago in the late 1970s and 80s. Since that time, house has evolved; it has gotten bigger, it has...
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Jun 2, 2021 · Jun 2, 2021. ·. By. Joe Muggs. What is house music? It’s an eternal question — one that’s kept musicologists’ conferences and pub arguments going for decades. In one sense, it’s simple: it’s the music that Frankie Knuckles played in Chicago’s Warehouse club in the mid 1980s, and everything that’s flowed from that.
Jun 7, 2021 · House Music Guide: A Brief History of House Music. Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Jun 7, 2021 • 4 min read. Since the 1980s, house music has been one of the most popular forms of dance music.
House, style of high-tempo, electronic dance music that originated in Chicago in the early 1980s and spread internationally. Born in Chicago clubs that catered to gay, predominantly black and Latino patrons, house fused the symphonic sweep and soul diva vocals of 1970s disco with the cold futurism.
In 1979, up to 60,000 rock fans gathered in Comiskey Park in Chicago to express their hate for the disco genre implied to be African American. The aggressive, drunk protests forced disco back...
