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Description
Craig Cannon grew up in a musical family that taught him the importance of party culture and social dancing. He was one of the foundational DJs who laid the groundwork for the development of house music culture from underground disco culture in Chicago. He began his DJ career spinning at private parties held in the South Shore apartments of Black gay men, as well as at downtown Chicago hotels, and went on to spin at legendary underground discos like The Ritz and Jeffrey Pub.
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
House Music, Chicago, Illinois, The Ritz, Jeffrey Pub, 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 Craig Cannon" (2014). Chicago House Music Oral History Project. 8.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/house/8
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.