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32944, Oh..about house music.
Posted by HotThyng76, Fri Oct-05-01 10:50 AM
>House is an underground music still
>to this day, so its
>social impact is minimal.

Ha. House isn't quite underground, but it's not totally mainstream either. It's important enough to the music industry that many major pop/R&B/country artists have house remixes of their songs to get some crossover appeal.

>Musically it is similar to disco,
>but I always thought hip-hop
>birthed house...

Hip-hop and house were born around the same time, and both share roots in disco. House took much of the disco aesthetic to heart, while hip-hop only borrowed disco's structure.




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