rhapsode

by Sha Frasier.the Continuing Education Project.New York.

PLACES

The clubs, streets, and buildings where the music in these notes was made and heard. Each has a note of its own and a place on the map.

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Venues5

CBGBEast Village · 1973–2006CBGB was the Manhattan rock club whose original-songs-only booking rule made it the center of New York punk and new wave in the 1970s and of hardcore in the 1980s.Paradise GarageWest SoHo · 1977–1987Paradise Garage was the members-only Manhattan dance club, with Larry Levan as resident DJ, that gave garage house its name and that London's Ministry of Sound was built to copy.Studio 54Midtown · 1977–1986Studio 54 was the Midtown Manhattan disco club, opened by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager in 1977, whose celebrity door policy set the public image of disco and of the exclusive nightclub.The LoftNoHo · 1970–nowThe Loft is the invitation-only dance party that David Mancuso began in his Manhattan apartment in 1970, whose private-party format the Gallery, the Warehouse, and Paradise Garage adopted.The WarehouseWest Loop · 1977–1983The Warehouse, the Chicago dance club after which house music is named, had Frankie Knuckles as its resident DJ from 1977 to 1983.

Streets1

Tin Pan Alley1885–1964Tin Pan Alley was the New York sheet-music publishing trade of the late 1880s onward, whose staff songwriters set the song forms that the Brill Building and Motown inherited.

Landmarks1

Brill Building1958–1965The Brill Building gave its name to New York's pop-songwriting trade of about 1958 to 1965, whose staff writers wrote for girl groups and vocal groups and whose songs the Beatles named as formative.

Published July 20, 2026