All tagged Chicago
A quick preview of a newly released book containing a brand new chapter on house music. The chapter, called ‘House music, Chicago and the uncomfortable heritage of racial segregation’ explores the socioeconomic drivers that underpinned house music’s creation.
The first of three posts that explores the connection between commemoration and memory in dance music culture. How should we best commemorate house music and disco’s lost heroes?
Redlining might be one of the most important factors in house music's history. It may have actually created the environment that underpinned house music's genesis.
We chat to Vince Lawrence, house pioneer and creator of the first true house track, and get his thoughts on house, religion, Comiskey park, and disco demolition.
FoH's latest interview sees us speaking with the "Architect of House", the legendary Chip-E. Highlights from the interview get into italo disco, Chip's first party experiences, and whether the LGBT community is an important as suggested by yellow journalism.
FoH and Jamie Principle get into a discussion of faith, gospel, sex and sexuality, and the legacy of Frankie Knuckles in Chicago, in our latest interview.
We chat to Jesse Saunders about the birth of house music, what the new sound meant to audiences, and how we should think about house's history.
FoH offers some personal thoughts on the connection between right-wing political climates and the stimulation of artistic endeavour in dance music history.
FoH waves goodbye to America and somehow try to sum up the past two weeks in this baffling and wonderful country.
Back in NYC. I'm thinking about how the two cities treat their own legacies, and comparing their attitudes.
Time to leave, off to NYC, and I'm left with questions about what house actually means in Chicago, and to whom does it belong.
FoH asks questions about bias and agendas in research. Should we try to unpick them or just accept that people have an agenda?
On Day 8 (Chicago) we saw hello to Vince Lawrence and the Cloud Gate and say goodbye to David Mancuso.
Day 7 of FoH's field research. Off to Chicago today to interview Suzanne Palmer, see a new city, and get a bit agoraphonic.
FoH's final day in New York faces up to the reality that disco is gone, and pretty much forgotten.
An archive recording of a documentary exploring Chicago's history and current relationship to house music.
The latest FoHMix sees us exploring slightly different tonalities and textures including garage, and elements of a deeper Chicago-based sound.
House music research being funded in the name of one of England's most wonderful composers?! Who'd have thought it eh? A blog about the Gerald Finzi Trust.
We look at the playlists from the original house club "The Warehouse" and asks what Frankie Knuckles was trying to achieve with the music he played.
