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Uproot : travels in twenty-first-century music and digital culture

Title

Uproot : travels in twenty-first-century music and digital culture / Jace Clayton.

Author

Clayton, Jace

Publication

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
©2016

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Description

274 pages; 19 cm

Summary

In 2001 Jace Clayton was an unknown DJ who recorded a three-turntable, sixty-minute mix and put it online to share with friends. Within weeks, Gold Teeth Thief became an international calling card, whisking Clayton away to play a nightclub in Zagreb, a gallery in Osaka, a former brothel in Sao Paolo, and the American Museum of Natural History. Just as the music world made its fitful, uncertain transition from analog to digital, Clayton found himself on the front lines of creative upheavals of art production in the twenty-first century globalized world. Uproot is a guided tour of this newly-opened cultural space. With humor, insight, and expertise, Clayton illuminates the connections between a Congolese hotel band and the indie-rock scene, Mexican rodeo teens and Israeli techno, and Whitney Houston and the robotic voices is rural Moroccan song, and offers an unparalleled understanding of music in the digital age.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

Confessions of a DJ -- Auto-tune gives you a better me -- How music travels -- World music 2.0 -- Red Bull gives you wings -- Cut & paste --Tools -- Loops -- How to hold on? -- Active listening.

ISBN

9780374533427
0374533423
9780374708849
0374708843

LCCN

2016001906

OCLC

ocn937999094
937999094
SCSB-1863336

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library