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This book provides a fairly straightforward history of the birth and early development of techno music in Detroit. Unlike other histories of electronic dance music, there's relatively little exploration of the music's peripheral culture, such as the rave scene. Rather, the focus is squarely on the activities of Detroit area musicians, DJs, and other key players in the evolution of techno. A supporting character is the city itself—its physical blight and artistic & economic decay providing not just a backdrop, but also a catalyst for the early/mid-1980s transformation of a cadre of suburban students into an urban creative class which is sometimes hyper-insular, other times very publicly celebratory. Chapters are mostly narrative and are roughly chronological, yet they repeatedly touch on several themes, including the artists' love-hate relationships with the trappings of mainstream success, and the role of the music press in mythologizing the music and its founders. The first edition (1999) was essential for scholars of this underdocumented and widely misunderstood genre, but it was dominated by techno's pre-history and gets sidetracked in reminiscences and coverage of techno outsid

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Author

Dan Sicko

Publisher

Billboard ; Windsor

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823084289

Category

music

Subjects

Fiction, Music, History

Rating

4.14 / 5 (177 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14