By Piotr Orlov • October 22, 2018

In case you don’t know — and chances are pretty good that if you aren’t from Chicago or a house music-head, you may not — the picture above is that of Frankie Knuckles. Knuckles, who passed away in 2014, is commonly known as the “Godfather of House Music,” but he may as well be called its actual parent, because it was The Warehouse, a Chicago club where from 1977-82 he DJ’ed a mix of deep dance music (soul and disco, disco-rap and early electronic vibes, pretty much anything beatwise and funky), that gave the genre its name. As you can plainly see, Frankie Knuckles was a Black man (he was also a gay man), and the people who he initially played music for were also predominantly gay people of color. This is Dance Music 101 shit that you can learn pretty much anywhere, that many of those engaged with dance music can recite it off the top.

Unfortunately, it seems that neither the producers at ABC News’ Nightline program — nor mega-selling French house DJ/producer, David Guetta — are interested in history when it stands in the way of hype, or of a hot-take headline, even if the episode turns into more erasure of Black American cultural achievement.

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