Baltimore Club Music changed dance music forever. A new book charts the genre's emergence.

If you walked into a Baltimore night club in the 1980s or 1990s, you were likely to hear something like I Got The Rhythm by Sounds of Silence. Baltimore Club Music featured fast-paced, repetitive beats, low-fidelity vocals, a dizzying array of samples and raunchy humor. The influential genre of electronic dance music blossomed in places like Odell’s Nightclub or Club Fantasy into a beloved symbol of the city’s charm and grit. Music journalist Al Shipley's new book, Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, follows the genre from hometown sound to beyond the bounds of Charm City.