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Description
Foster has been a supporter of house music since her youth, acting as a promoter and producer with the Chosen Few Picnic each year in Jackson Park. Blackful became well known in the City as a radio personality and music entrepreneur when he co-hosted WGCI’s Bad Boy Radio during the early 2000s. Both were avid listeners of hot mix radio as teenagers, noting the critical role that cassette tapes played in disseminating Chicago’s house sounds.
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
House Music, Chicago, Illinois, promoter, producer, WGCI, Bad Boy Radio
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 Toy 'Tonka Toi' Foster and Victor 'The Dizz' Blackful" (2013). Chicago House Music Oral History Project. 48.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/house/48
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.