Genre Spotlight: The birth of House music
As one of the more recent genres to emerge, house music represents freedom, escapism and community in such a physically expressive format. House music is so heavily tied to disco, a widely established genre by the time the 1980s came around. This is where house was born and where it thrived — within its confined, underground club scene. Its name actually comes from a venue named The Warehouse, where DJ Frankie Knuckles experimented with early house through disco, soul, and […]