ISBN:
9780190698454
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
illustrations (black and white)
DDC:
781.6480977311
Keywords:
House music History and criticism
;
Illinois
;
Chicago
;
Homosexuality and popular music Illinois
;
Chicago
;
African American gays Illinois
;
Chicago
;
Popmusik
;
Chicago, Ill.
;
House
;
Geschichte 1975-2019
Abstract:
This interdisciplinary study historicizes house music, the rhythmically focused electronic dance sound born in the post-industrial maroon spaces of Chicago’s queer, black, and Latino social dancers. Working from oral history interviews, archival research, and performance ethnography, it argues that the remediation and adaptation of house by multiple and overlapping crossover communities in its first decade shaped the ways that contemporary Chicago house music producers, DJs, dancers, and promoters re-remember and re-animate house as an archive indexing experiences of queer of color congregation. Engaging with and extending the fields of African American studies, urban studies, gender and sexuality studies, dance studies, performance studies, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and media studies, Do You Remember House? considers house music culture’s liberatory potential in relation to its flexible repertoire in motion, an ever-expanding archive of danceable sounds.
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190698416.001.0001
