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Description
Michael Ezebukwu was a foundational underground disco DJ in Chicago who performed at venues like the Private Sculpture Room, Rialto Tap, Sauer’s, Dingbats and Club LaRay. His work influenced a generation of DJs who shepherded house music from queer of color social spaces to South Side teen spaces and more mainstream crossover spaces throughout the city.
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
House Music, Chicago, Illinois, Private Sculpture Room, Riato Tap, Sauer's, Dingbats, Clue LaRay, disc jockey
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 Michael Ezebukwu" (2014). Chicago House Music Oral History Project. 34.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/house/34
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.