The Impossible Dance

I really enjoyed this weeks required reading, Impossible Dance: Club culture and queer world-making by Fiona Buckland. Buckland discussed the history of disco, DJs, and clubs to our culture. In addition, she described the outlet these clubs gave to gay men in the 1970s and 1980s.

House music was first discovered after the Warehouse dance club in Chicago. The music is more beat heavy than garage and incorporated rhythm and vocals to the composition. DJs at clubs played this music. Suddenly, DJs and remixes became more popular than recording stars. Slowly, house music was phased out and singles such as the YMCA and Macho Man provided an outlet and meaning that gay men could understand and align themselves with.

I didn't know that clubs were such an outlet for homosexual men. This was a very interesting article. I look forward to discussing the rest of the article in class tomorrow!