Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk (Painted Turtle)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814334385 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dan Sicko has written for numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, Wired, and Urb, and is a creative director with a Detroit-area advertising agency.
About the Author Dan Sicko has written for numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, Wired, and Urb, and is a creative director with a Detroit-area advertising agency.
Author Dan Sicko demystified techno's characteristics, influences, and origins and argued that although techno enjoyed its most widespread popularity in Europe, its birthplace and most important incubator was Detroit. Sicko concludes by investigating how Detroit techno functions today after the contrived electronica boom of the late 1990s, through the original artists, new sounds, and Detroit's annual electronic music festival.Ultimately, Sicko argues that techno is rooted in the "collective dreaming" of the city of Detroit-as if its originators wanted to preserve what was great about the city-its machines and its deep soul roots. When it was originally published in 1999, Techno Rebels became the definitive text on a hard-to-define but vital genre of music. Techno Rebels gives a thorough picture of the music itself and the trailblazing musicians be
Great on Detroit Techno, so-so on everything else Dan Sicko deserves credit here for being the first person to attempt to put together a definitive history of techno as a musical genre. Being from Detroit, his strength is his encyclopedic knowledge of the evolution of the techno scene in the Motor City. Although the ultimate relevance of some of the early material about dance parties and such is never adequately explained, Sicko reveals the early development of Detroit techno sk. Academic, But Well Worth The Read At times this book reads like a thesis, but Sicko does his best to present a lot of information in an easy-to-follow and cohesive manner as possible. No matter how familiar the reader is with the Detroit (and beyond) Techno scene, I would suspect he or she will discover at least some new insights herein. Congrats to Sicko - he's done a terrific job!. Nick George-Parker said Five Stars. They don't make em' like this anymore.