![]() ![]() She remembers Kenwood’s school dances, where folks like Jesse Saunders played disco and top 40, but she wouldn’t begin to embrace the South Side’s genre-defiant dance music culture until she attended Loop Junior College (now Harold Washington Junior College) with Steve Hurley in the early ‘80s. A dark-skinned girl with short hair who was a self-professed late-bloomer and tomboy, Alexander sided with the harder-edged kids in her neighborhood, rejecting disco and embracing stepper culture. Attending Kenwood high school, she knew that her neighborhood’s cultural vitality was in part connected to the fact that it was a home for interracial couples in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as a campus town, set apart from the rest of the segregated city. ![]() DJ Celeste Alexander grew up on the South Side of Chicago in Hyde Park. ![]()
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