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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

The Forgotten Black and Queer History of House Music - Beyond the Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Beyoncé and Drake released house music albums this year, leaving fans confused by their shift from pop-soul sounds to dance beats. Despite popular belief, house music comes from the the 70s disco era and fostered a safe space for Black and queer folk to feel true liberation. Daily Show producer, Chelsea Williamson, house music great, DJ Derrick Carter, and music scholar and writer, Craig Seymour, join host Roy Wood Jr. to discuss the forgotten origins of house music.  Beyond The Scenes is a podcast from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Check out more episodes wherever you get your podcasts or YouTube.com/TheDailyShow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:06.0

What up, it's Roy Wood Jr. Next, you're about to hear a special presentation of the Daily

0:11.2

Show podcast that I host called Beyond the Scenes.

0:14.8

Now all it is, it's very simple.

0:16.6

If it's a topic that's already been on the Daily Show, we talk about it again and we

0:21.2

go even deeper on the topic and you know see what we are now on the issue, get deeper

0:26.4

into the origins of the problem and we do that with Daily Show producers, writers, correspondence

0:31.3

and expert guests who know a hell of a lot more about it than us to help us break it down.

0:37.5

Have a listen.

0:38.5

Welcome to Beyond the Scenes, the Daily Show podcast that goes a little deeper into segments

0:42.9

and topics that aren't originally on the show.

0:46.2

We're kind of like the amenities you get when you stay in an all-inclusive resort.

0:50.3

You know, you get the hotel room of course, but this podcast, it's the room service, the

0:55.3

buffet, the fancy bathrobe, and the bathrobe, so comfortable.

0:58.9

I installed six, let me stop snitching on myself.

1:02.4

Today we're discussing a topic from CP Time that I did on the origins of house music.

1:07.7

The piece highlights the notable black DJs and singers that created the original sound

1:12.2

of the genre.

1:13.7

House music is all the rage these days, from drinking Beyonce to Swedish house mafia to

1:19.9

Mickey Mouse's co-kid cousin who lives in the bad part of Epcot.

1:23.6

But would you believe that this genre has its origins in the black community?

1:28.0

Of course you should.

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