CHICAGO -- Chicago is getting ready to celebrate 40 years as the birthplace of house music, as the city on Tuesday revealed plans for the big anniversary, turning Daley Plaza into a dance party in the process.Mayor Brandon Johnson and other city leaders were joined by house music DJs to announce a number of events planned for this year. These include a house music festival at Millennium Park, and a 40th anniversary house music parade on Aug. 31.'God has been so good.
The House Music 40 website described house as 'a new, raw, collaborative dance genre based on disco's BPMs and soulful R&B, with a dash of funk, and gospel's electricity, stirred in a pot of electronically cooked beats and melodies.'The website noted that house music had been circulating on radio mix shows and in the underground on cassette and reel-to-reel tapes – until finally making its way onto vinyl records in 1984.
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