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Reggie Corner is the music entrepreneur behind “The Way We Were.” He has helped to curate exhibitions like the Chicago Cultural Center’s Move Your Body, in addition to promoting and producing outdoor programs like House in the Park and the Chosen Few Old School Reunion Picnic. A fixture on the Chicago house scene since the early 1980s, Corner has been a force for preserving house culture for the generation that birthed it.
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
House Music, Chicago, Illinois, Move Your Body, producer, promoter
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 Reggie Corner" (2013). Chicago House Music Oral History Project. 40.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/house/40
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.