Black History Month: Midwest Electric - The Story of Chicago House and Detroit Techno

It's been decades since house and techno music exploded out of South Side Chicago and inner-city Detroit, and most Americans still don't know their dance music history. In 1977 a DJ named Frankie Knuckles moved to Chicago to spin and remix disco records at an underground club called The Warehouse. Out of a fringe subculture that formed there - gay and African-American - house music would emerge to become one the biggest club music genres in the world. Meanwhile, young black futurists of Detroit channeled their city's post-industrial decay into a utopian machine music known as techno. APWW Produced by Marlon Bishop and Wills Glasspiegel

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Black History Month: Midwest Electric - The Story of Chicago House and Detroit Techno is an episode from Afropop Worldwide by Afropop Worldwide.

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This episode was published on Feb 19, 2026.

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