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Valencia Dantzler grew up on Printers Row near the infamous Importes Etc. record shop that helped establish the use of the term “house music” to categorize records broken by Frankie Knuckles at The Warehouse. A multi-talented media entrepreneur, Dantzler has been an advocate for house music’s acknowledgment as cultural heritage, and a supporter of events like the Summerdance DJ nights that brought house to citywide audiences during the 2004-2006 seasons.
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
House Music, Chicago, Illinois, Importes Etc., The Warehouse, Summerdance
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 Valencia 'Mother Diva' Dantzler" (2014). Chicago House Music Oral History Project. 49.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/house/49
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.