02-12-2011, 05:26 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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House is an amalgamation of different musical strands such as jazz and funk. House music is also called dance music, electronica, electronic dance music (EDM). There is debate around this. Some prefer to group house under the label electronic music. However, others believe this distorts recognition of the trajectory of electronic music by obscuring its origins which are working class, gay, and African American. For me, I use both house and electronica because most of the contemporary and more electronic sounding music evolved from house which began in the 70s/80s.
However, I mainly use house because I am kinda old skool like that and the questionable distillation implicit in renaming this type of music electronica with house (the originator) as a genre does not sit well with me philosophically - it has a very colonizing feel to it. Like a business meeting at a company formerly run by Women where a few Women are still around but the company has been taken over by Men. In the meetings Women will sometimes speak but are generally not heard. Then one of the Men will repeat what one of the Women said and all will listen. Wow, this analogy brings back (bad) memories of that type of meeting dynamic...
Anyhoo, hope that helps a bit 
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