Full Description
Today, no matter where you are in the world, you can turn on a radio and hear the echoes and influences of Chicago house music. Do You Remember House? tells a comprehensive story of the emergence, and contemporary memorialization of house in Chicago, tracing the development of Chicago house music culture from its beginnings in the late '70s to the present. Based on expansive research in archives and his extensive conversations with the makers of house in Chicago's parks, clubs, museums, and dance studios, author Micah Salkind argues that the remediation and adaptation of house music by crossover communities in its first decade shaped the ways that Chicago producers, DJs, dancers, and promoters today re-remember and mobilize the genre as an archive of collectivity and congregation.
The book's engagement with musical, kinesthetic, and visual aspects of house music culture builds from a tradition of queer of color critique. As such, Do You Remember House? considers house music's liberatory potential in terms of its genre-defiant repertoire in motion. Ultimately, the book argues that even as house music culture has been appropriated and exploited, the music's porosity and flexibility have allowed it to remain what pioneering Chicago DJ Craig Cannon calls a 'musical Stonewall' for queers and people of color in the Windy City and around the world.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Epigraph
Introduction
Part 1 - This is How It Started
Chapter One - Like a Phoenix From The Ashes: Socio-Sonic Memory and Proto-House Geographies
Introduction
Anti-Integration Activism in Residential and Cultural Spaces
Urban Renewal, Deindustrialization, and Top-Down Development
The Rise and Fall of Chicago's Indie R&B and Soul Industry
Queer of Color Cultural Antecedents
Conclusion
Chapter Two - The Warehouse and The Music Box: Nurturing Chicago House Music Culture
Introduction
The Birth of The Warehouse
Ron Hardy and The Music Box
Conclusion
Chapter Three - Remediating The Underground: Teen Parties, Disco Punk, and Hot Mix Radio
Introduction
The Deep Times and Spaces of Chicago's Black Social Dance Cultures
Hotmixing DJs on The Airwaves
"Saturday Night Live Ain't No Jive"
Conclusion
Chapter Four - The End of The First Decade: House Music Crosses Over and Moves Out
Introduction
Pressing and Selling Chicago House
Chicago House Music Moves Out
Conclusion
Part 2 - It's Not Over
Chapter Five - "Is It All Over My Face?" Sounding a Communal Love Ethic at The Chosen Few Old School Reunion Picnic
Introduction
Setting The Stage: Reunion Picnics, Chosen Family, and Camp Culture
Sounding The Classics of a Repertoire in Motion
Dancing The Loving Community
Conclusion
Chapter Six - Are You Ready to Get Your Life? Performing Neostalgia and Wildness in Chicago's Contemporary Queer Club Scenes
Introduction
The Hermitage of House
Safer Spaces on The West Side
Queen!'s Neostalgic Musical Mix
Sounding Wildness at Chances Dances
Queen!'s Neostalgic Visuality
Cuteness and Wild Visuality at Chances Dances
Conclusion
Chapter Seven - Dancing in Brave Spaces
Introduction
Being Big
Riding The Rhythm, Pulling Energy
Jack Your Body, Strike a Pose
Out of My Head
Conclusion
Coda
Bibliography
Books
Articles
Websites, Online Articles, and Multimedia
Conferences, Lectures, Symposia, Unpublished Work, Personal Correspondences etc.
Oral History Interviews
Selected Discography
