Introduction -- I : This is how it started -- Like a phoenix from the ashes -- The warehouse and the music box -- Remediating the underground -- The end of the first decade -- II : It's not over -- "Is it all over my face?" -- Are you ready to get your life? -- Dancing in brave spaces
Summary:
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 colour congregation