New York City has hip-hop, and Chicago has house music. Although each genre became a global phenomenon, the latter still generates far less mainstream coverage. To this day, a cloud of mystery still ...
Elegance Bratton’s documentary “Move Ya Body,” which tracks both the artistic evolution of house music and its historical and sociopolitical impact, emerged from the unlikeliest of sources: Hillary ...
House music typically thumps at 120-130 beats per minute, in 4/4 time. That’s an awfully clinical description of the sound that shakes the floor and the walls at dance clubs around the world. What’s ...
In his latest feature, which premiered at Sundance, the 'Inspection' director asks who gets credited for their contributions to American culture. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic At a certain ...
'The Inspection' director Elegance Bratton juxtaposes many elements, from interviews to reenactments, to inventively tell the origin story of a musical movement. The first few minutes of “Move Ya Body ...
One day in 1979, Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl encouraged thousands of fans to bring disco records to a White Sox game and destroy them. “He felt like it was just ‘that Black stuff,’” Vince Lawrence ...
A Chicago tale beginning with the infamous Comiskey Park Disco Demolition night and ending with the global rise of house music as sweet revenge opens the 10th edition of the nonfiction film festival ...
‘The Inspection’ director also discusses preparations for crime thriller ‘By Any Means,’ starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II It was Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams who ...
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