Were currently experiencing a total mainstreaming of dance music in America...Many of these newcomers are straight/white kids who are very far removed from the LGBT community, despite fist-pumping by the millions to a music that was born from gay people of color sweating their asses off at 5 AM in a Chicago warehouse. Its easy for us to dismiss this as a corruption of the music we hold so dear by charlatans and assholes, but many of the newcomers will be drawn into the music for life, and I think its important that we highlight the role that the gay community played and that we educate new fans of dance music to the ideals of community, equality and diversity that were so crucial to dance musics DNA from the beginning. residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1927&comments=2
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:44:28 +0000