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Description
Larissa Johnson is a dancer and promoter who was raised on the South Side of Chicago during the 1970s and 1980s. She partied at high school sock hops at her alma mater Kenwood, and at other house parties and parochial schools, but eventually graduated to underground spaces like The Music Box and Club Naked. Johnson left Chicago to attend college but later returned and became part of the social dance communities at parties like Cordell Johnson’s Excursions.
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
House Music, Chicago, Illinois, dancer, promoter, The Music Box, Excursions
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Disciplines
African American Studies | Gender and Sexuality | History | Latina/o Studies | Music | Regional Sociology
Recommended Citation
Salkind, Micah, "Interview with Larissa Johnson" (2014). Chicago House Music Oral History Project. 27.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/house/27
Comments
This interview is part of the Chicago House Music Oral History Project held at Columbia College Chicago and was captured for Do You Remember House? Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds authored by Micah Salkind and published in 2019. The work integrates histories of music, production, DJing, dance, fashion, and slang and addresses movements that led to the development of Chicago's house music.