Technomotor cities: Adelaide, Detroit and the electronic music pioneers
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2018
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Adamek, C.
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Brunt, S.
Stahl, G.
Stahl, G.
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Source details - Title: Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music, 2018 / Brunt, S., Stahl, G. (ed./s), Ch.12, pp.155-166
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This chapter discusses how dance music swiftly took root outside its place of inception during a pre-Internet era, when global import markets were expanding. In 1988, the “Second Summer of Love” was a dance music phenomenon that marked the global birth of new genres which were created with new technology: house, hip hop and techno. Detroit is credited as the birthplace of techno in the 1980s and by the early 1990s Adelaide had developed a reputation for its passionate engagement with dance music and particularly Detroit techno. The history of dance music situates techno in Detroit and house in Chicago as part of a narrative of global dance music culture that was based in the USA and influenced by the UK. The aesthetic appeal of techno’s sound directly echoes the transition to a technological base in factories and the automotive industries. The Detroit techno artists recall, in a documentary interview, their parents coming home from work and telling them they worked with robots.
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Copyright 2018 Taylor and Francis