Uproot
Subtitle: travels in twenty-first-century music and digital culture
By: Jace Clayton
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780374533427
Subjects: Popular music; Electronic dance music; Dissemination of music; Social aspects; Analysis, appreciation; Music and globalization; History and criticism; Music and the Internet; World music; Production and direction; Popular culture
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Confessions of a DJ; title: Auto-tune gives you a better me; title: How music travels; title: World music 2.0; title: Red Bull gives you wings; title: Cut & paste; title: Tools; title: Loops; title: How to hold on?; title: Active listening.