How South Africa’s queer underground is remaking ballroom in its own image (DJMAG)

By |2023-12-11T19:19:48-06:00December 11th, 2023|Afro House, Afrobeats, Amapiano, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ Mag, Gay, House Music, International, LGBTQIA+, South Africa|

  In South Africa's burgeoning ballroom scene, pioneering figures and DJs are finding their own ‘Ha’ in the country's past, and in the contemporary sounds of gqom, amapiano, and Afrobeats. Tazmé Pillay learns more “DJ, cut the beat.” The room falls silent — an unforgivable sin anywhere else, but this is no nightclub. This is a [...]

Explore House Music’s Queer Roots With These 15 Fierce Tracks (ElectronicBeats.net)

By |2023-06-04T20:04:47-05:00June 4th, 2023|Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Gay, House, House Music, House Music History, LGBTQIA+, Uncategorized|

From banging cuts for the ballroom to surprisingly tasteful early big room house, these tracks expose the genre's roots in queer American club cultures. House music is gay music. The sound emerged from the queer black and latinx club cultures of New York and Chicago in the ’80s. Strangely, these roots of the culture are not very well [...]

Remembering the Black and Queer Foundations That Helped to Build House Music (vt.co)

By |2023-02-28T18:18:13-06:00February 28th, 2023|African American, black History Month, Dance Music, Disco, DJ, electronic music, Gay, House, House Music, House Music History, LGBTQIA+, Music, UK|

  By Asiya Ali For this Black History Month US and LGBT History Month, we're celebrating the rich roots of house music and the Black and Queer DJs who helped create it. There's a strong impression that House music has become synonymous with whiteness. This is obviously due to the genre being spearheaded by mostly white, [...]

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