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Date
Wednesday 26 February 2025
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Time
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
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Venue
Stuart Hall Library
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Free but booking is required!
From Fordism to Motown, from Kraftwerk to Afro-futurism and mythical Atlantics, Detroit Techno is both a musical genre that behind its simplified format of 4/4 beats and patchwork of digital samples, conceals a complex sense of history, time, and space. Emerging from an American city fragmented and abandoned by the ruinous trends of a protracted, post-industrial withdrawal, comes a new electronic genre that is at once speculative, non-anthropomorphic, hopeful, even.
Amid these contradictions and fulfilments of Detroit techno, Iniva has chosen February to honour this ground-breaking sound first coming out of the 80’s, investigating its initial influences in a German band of electronic music outliers and post-Motown musical factory production lines, to how the sound found eventual form in the bedrooms of black music pioneers, before eventually finding its way to the dancefloors of the enthusiastic Berlin ravers who were just beginning to make sense of a Europe no longer under the shadow of the Soviet Union.
Join Library Manager Jack Mulvaney in this reading group featuring extracts from Kodwo Eshun and Der Klang Der Familie.
ACCESSIBILITY
It is free to attend this event and everyone is welcome. If you have accessibility requirements or questions please email library@iniva.org
BIOGRAPHY
Jack Mulvaney manages the Stuart Hall Library and oversees the development of the collection. He facilitates library group visits, tours and manages library volunteering programmes.