House

House music is a kind of electronic dance music. House music emerged in the 1980s in the USA, Illinois, Chicago. It was quite popular in the 1980s in Chicago, New York, Detroit, Miami and New Jersey in the gay, African-American and Latino American communities. Then house music came to Europe. Such disco kinds as funk and soul made an influence on house music. There are such components containing in house music: synthesizer bass line, electronic drums, electronic effects, delay-enhanced vocals and prominent bass.
House music can be characterized by mid-tempo according to the up to date music standards and up-tempo as music for dancing.
The drum kick on every beat is the general element of house music. Hi-hat cymbal can accompany the beats of bass.
Various sources are used for bass sound in house. Some producers use the repeating of electronic lines created with help of synthesizer and some utilize live electric bassists.
House music often utilizes the electronically created sounds from jazz and blues. Some house compositions utilize staccato chord loops, syncopated, short and repeating. Trance and techno developed on the basis of house music.

House music evolution
House music originated from disco, which shared the messages of sexuality and love. It mixed funk, soul and R&B. Synthesizers and drum machines create sounds for house music, and thus some pieces of music are totally electronic. Some house music composers used techniques borrowed from disco producers, DJs and engineers such as Larry Levan, Ron Hardy, M & M, Tom Moulton, and Jim Burgess etc. Frankie Knuckles was early house music producer, who utilized synthesizers, sequencers, drum machines and samplers creating his music.

Let's make some small research; when and where the term house music was used for the first time.
Probably, the term emerged in Chicago city and originated from the name of night club called The Warehouse. This club was created for Latino, gay and black community. People came there to dance and listen to music performed by Frankie Knuckles. In 1982 the club was renamed after Knuckles left it. The new name of the club was Music box, but the term house, the contraction of the club's name became quite popular in Chicago. Knuckles became to associate with house music. Nevertheless, South-Side Chicago DJ Leonard "Remix" Rroy argued that he wrote a sign like "house" in a window of tavern, because man could find his own home in music he played.
"It's House" by Chip E. helped to determine a new model of electronic music.
Larry heard argues that the term house emerged, because the first DJs played their music in their homes.

The creator of Detroit techno music argued that the term "house" showed the soul of concrete DJ though his tracks, which were his own "house" records. Nevertheless, house music continued to develop in Chicago in the houses, night clubs and garages. House music became more conceptual and longer than music played before. House music compositions became to appear in the music stores. Importes Etc., State Street Records, Gramaphone Record and JR's Music shop were the primary stores with the house music. At some periods of time, house music had some influence of political messages to the fugitive people. Frankie Knuckles told that house music was a kind of church people who were out of grace. Moreover, Marshall Jefferson told that house music was like old times religion. Some people argued that house was a voice of freedom for black community.
House dance in the 1980s was a basis for house development. House dance cracked into 3 styles such as Jacking, Lofting and Footwork. There are a lot of techniques utilized in dance house. Some sub-styles of house dance borrowed their movements from Capoeira, tap, whacking, voguing and Latin dances. Moreover, some movements are from bebop and jazz.
House music makes one free and is based on the sensuality of the body.
In the 1980s, the Detroit techno music became to develop. The first creator of Detroit techno was The Electrifying Mojoconducted. He leaded his radio program using the signature of Detroit techno sound, which was the fusion of electric sounds. Moreover, the "godfathers" of Detroit Techno were European Electronica (Kraftwerk, Art of Noise), early B-boy Hip-Hop (Man Parrish, Soul Sonic Force) Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson which influenced Detroit Techno a lot.
The "Summer of Love" was a great step in UK house music development. House music appeared in the UK approximately at the same time as in Chicago. Manchester became a great centre of the "Northern Soul" genre development.
A lot of underground DJs played house music all over the UK. House music also raised in the UK after the tours of Knuckles, Fingers Inc and Jefferson. "Promised Land" by Joe Smooth became very popular. Europe welcomed house music after T-Coy released the "Carino" in 1986. Thus from that time, house music became quite popular in Europe and Europeans became to invite professional American DJs to play in the clubs.
House music also developed on Ibiza in the 1970s and the beginning of 1980s. Some clubs were playing the mixes of pop, rock, disco and house music.
The fuel for these clubs was Ecstasy and unique sound. Moreover, the Ibiza sound was brought to the UK by Paul Oakenfold and Danny Rampling.
From 1980s till 1990s, house music did not have a big progress in the USA. Todd Terry developed electronic music moving from early underground to the new house music, which was hip-hop influenced.
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n the end of the 1990s the new sound of house music appeared by producers such as DJ Falcon, Daft Punk, Cassius and St. Germain. They made a great piece of work, which is known as the French House movement. They mixed Funk & Disco music from the 1970s with philosophy of Chicago house making the standards that would fit all types of house music.
Pop-house was a new style that appeared in the 1980s and was influenced by pop music. it became quite popular in late 80s because of such performers as Pop Stars, Bomb The Bass, S-Express, Black Box, Krush, Coldcut, Yazz, Penthouse 4, Pop Stars, Bomb The Bass, S-Express and other.
Chicago was proclaimed as the original home of house music. Thus in 2005 the August 10 was proclaimed as the "House Unity Day" in Chicago. Moreover, the celebration of the "House Unity Day" at the Summer Dance Series was organized by the Department of Cultural Affairs of Chicago.

In the 2000s we can notice the wide range of subgenres, which were developing on the basis of house music. We can distinguish dark house, fidget house, tech house emerged and electro house as a result of genres fusion.
Moreover, house music keeps its popularity all over the world at present time as well. It became a mainstream with the help of the producers such as David Guetta, Benny Benassi and Justice, which showed a new concept of house music. Nowadays, house music becomes a great part of American music culture, because of its development and innovations.