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house

music
Also known as: house music
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Simon C.W. Reynolds
Freelance writer. Author of Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock; Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture and Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, among...
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house, style of high-tempo, electronic dance music that originated in Chicago in the early 1980s and spread internationally. Born in Chicago clubs that catered to gay, predominantly black and Latino patrons, house fused the symphonic sweep and soul diva vocals of 1970s disco with the cold futurism of synthesizer-driven Eurodisco. Invented by deejay-producers such as Frankie Knuckles and Marshall Jefferson, house reached Europe by 1986, with tracks on Chicago labels Trax and DJ International penetrating...

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