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Technomotor cities: Adelaide, Detroit and the electronic music pioneers

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dc.contributor.authorAdamek, C.
dc.contributor.editorBrunt, S.
dc.contributor.editorStahl, G.
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.identifier.citationSource 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
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315638256-17
dc.identifier.isbn9781317270485
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/31661
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUS
dc.rightsCopyright 2018 Taylor and Francis
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638256-17
dc.subjectdance music
dc.subjectpre-internet era
dc.subjectdance music penomenon
dc.titleTechnomotor cities: Adelaide, Detroit and the electronic music pioneers
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished
ror.mmsid9916697229901831

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