The Forgotten Black and Queer History of House Music - Beyond the Scenes
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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House Music - The Roots of Disco
House music has always been associated with white people, but can you give us the basic overview of the black roots of the genre? Yeah. I feel like you can't really get into house without first acknowledging that it came from disco. And July 1979, basically in Chicago, a radio DJ named Steve Dahl held a disco demolition night. There's supposed to be a game that night and he blew up a bunch of disco records.
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