When Dancers Handed Out “Stop Talking” Cards

Good Morning,At the Houghton festival this summer, clubbers handed out cards reading “The Dance Floor Is For Dancing,” with a diagram of EQ curves on the back showing where vocals sit above the bass. The DJ Jane Fitz had started the argument with an Instagram post asking people to stop chatting through sets (The Guardian).
The conductor John Mauceri and the Columbia linguist John McWhorter argue in Broadway in Black and White that one blue note carries humiliation in Fats Waller’s “Black