Sing it back: celebrating the forgotten female voices of house music

"A lot of people fob off house lyrics as, 'Oh they're not proper songs,'" says [DJ Clair Stirling]. "But a lot of the Chicago stuff, you listen to it and it's heart wrenching." What's more, she notes that the tunes of Chi-town's house heyday have los...

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Published inThe Guardian (London)
Main Author McQuaid, Ian
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Guardian News & Media Limited 22.07.2016
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Stirling, DJ Clair
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Summary:"A lot of people fob off house lyrics as, 'Oh they're not proper songs,'" says [DJ Clair Stirling]. "But a lot of the Chicago stuff, you listen to it and it's heart wrenching." What's more, she notes that the tunes of Chi-town's house heyday have lost none of their relevance. "A song like, say, Joe Smooth's Promised Land is a song we should all be listening to now -- those lyrics couldn't be any more current with the recent violence in the States. These are political songs, love songs, even songs about God."
ISSN:0261-3077