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An inside look at the music born, bred, and perfected in Chicago. Chicago house music originated in the city's Black, gay underground in the late seventies and became one of the most popular musical genres in the world by the end of the century. In Chicago House Music: Culture and Community, Marguerite Harrold tells the story of the genre's rise and the prolific creators who have sustained it for decades. You'll learn about house music's early innovators, like Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles, who transformed the social and political turmoil around them into a revolution in dance music. You'll also hear remembrances from contemporary figures in the house community, like DJ Lady D, Avery R. Young, Czboogie and Edgar ""Artek"" Sinio, who have forged new paths as the genre has evolved. It's a story about much more than music--it's about a community struggling for acceptance, love, liberation, and freedom, and about the creative pioneers whose resilience helped turn house music into a worldwide phenomenon. Full of interviews and first-hand accounts from the people who stood behind the turntables, carried crates of records, or danced until dawn, Chicago House Music is the history of an art form that continues to be a force for social interaction, spiritual liberation, and community today.

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A love letter to Chicago house music, and a tribute to the Black culture that gave it life. -Barbara E. Allen, filmmaker, House Music: A Cultural Revolution Marguerite Harrold's deeply felt book shows Chicago house is a culture and a way of life; it's a community and a family; it's an expression of Black and Brown queer communities, and it's the face of pop music. It is a definitive expression of Chicago, incubated by marginalized communities counteracting political and economic neglect. -Leor Galil, senior staff writer, the Chicago Reader

""A love letter to Chicago house music, and a tribute to the Black culture that gave it life."" --Barbara E. Allen, filmmaker, House Music: A Cultural Revolution ""Marguerite Harrold's deeply felt book shows Chicago house is a culture and a way of life; it's a community and a family; it's an expression of Black and Brown queer communities, and it's the face of pop music. It is a definitive expression of Chicago, incubated by marginalized communities counteracting political and economic neglect."" --Leor Galil, senior staff writer, the Chicago Reader

"""A love letter to Chicago house music, and a tribute to the Black culture that gave it life."" --Barbara E. Allen, filmmaker, House Music: A Cultural Revolution ""Marguerite Harrold's deeply felt book shows Chicago house is a culture and a way of life; it's a community and a family; it's an expression of Black and Brown queer communities, and it's the face of pop music. It is a definitive expression of Chicago, incubated by marginalized communities counteracting political and economic neglect."" --Leor Galil, senior staff writer, the Chicago Reader"

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Marguerite L. Harrold is a poet, teacher, environmentalist, and community activist from Chicago. Her poems and essays have appeared in Obsidian, Chicago Review, jubilat, Anti-Heroin Chic, RHINO, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, and other literary journals.

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