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A new documentary celebrating the 40th anniversary of Chicago's house music scene premieres tomorrow.

The film, House Music: A Cultural Revolution, features archival footage from the genre's early years, and interviews with key innovators about the time. The documentary lays out how Chicago’s underground Black and gay clubs fostered spaces for those to flourish, and how it genre inspired pop artists today from Charli XCX to Beyoncé. It's set to air on November 8th, via Chicago television station WTTW.

House Music: A Cultural Revolution producer Barbara Allen said the film will also look at the melting pot of influences that informed Chicago house. "House music is more than just the music, it's a community," she told Chicago Tonight.

"The film talks a lot about the community...the congregation of people that make house music," she concluded. "Once you get the beat, it becomes almost chanting with your body—where you all get in the same groove as you would in a chant but you do it with your body and you're dancing."

House Music: A Cultural Revolution airs on WTTW at 8pm CST on Friday (November 8th). View the full schedule of when it will be aired afterwards here.

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