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The Forgotten Black and Queer History of House Music - Beyond the Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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Black House Music

"I just have to give it up to the black ingenuity of hooking up a cassette player to a VCR," he says. "The reason why it can really, I feel very comfortable calling it racist is because some of the people that were taking the records that people would get ... they were bringing in Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin Records." He adds: "They weren't making any distinction between black music in general and disco".

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