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Czarina Mirani: Spin Slide and Jack: A History of House Dancing on 5 Magazine, 2005. Makkada B. Selah: Powder Burns – Essay on house dance Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine in Village Voice, 2007. Barry Walters: Burning Down the House, in SPIN magazine, November 1986. Phil Cheeseman: "The History Of House", on DJ Magazine, December 2003.
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. [10] It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground club culture and evolved slowly in the early/mid 1980s as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat.
This is a list of artists who have been involved with house music, a genre of electronic dance music. This includes artists who have either been very important to the house music genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as in the case of one who has been on a major label). This list does not include little-known local artists. Groups are listed by the first letter in the group ...
Ahead of Beyoncé's "Renaissance" album release, read a brief history of house music, a genre pioneered by Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy.
One of the primary elements in house dancing is "the jack" or "jacking"—a style created in the early days of Chicago house that left its trace in numerous record titles such as "Time to Jack" by Chip E. from the "Jack Trax" EP (1985), "Jack’n the House" (1985) by Farley "Jackmaster" Funk (1985) or "Jack Your Body" by Steve "Silk" Hurley (1986).
Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago.The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesizer-sequencer, [1] an innovation attributed to Chicago artists Phuture and Sleezy D circa 1986.
Vogue, or voguing, is a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s. [1] It is inspired by the poses of models in fashion magazines .
Javier Ninja (birth name Javier Madrid, [1] born 10 March 1984 in Queens [2] (New York City)) is an American vogue dancer [1] [3] and teacher. [2] [4] [5] Madrid is a member of the Legendary House of Ninja founded by the late Willi Ninja [1] and has worn the House Dance International vogue "Champion of the year" for three consecutive years. [6]