The origins and ownership of the term “house music” have been hotly debated since, well, always. House music is a lot things to a lot of people. It's disco's revenge. It's a feeling. It's controllable ...

In 1975, Mendel High School in Roseland began hosting student parties that helped incubate house-music culture. Here a flyer from a 1986 Mendel party DJed by Ron Hardy is superimposed over a 1978 ...

New York City has hip-hop, and Chicago has house music. Although each genre became a global phenomenon, the latter still generates far less mainstream coverage. To this day, a cloud of mystery still ...