Scholars don't embrace the concept that the equipment that a DJ uses is a musical instrument.
"It is interesting how the music migrated from Detroit to Europe, and the music became associated with rave parties, and then migrated back to the U.S., and Americans became involved ... and the African American identity became invisible. Music can be appropriated and re-appropriated, and history can be distorted as a result of that ... Very few people associate techno with its African American origins."That's from folklore and ethnomusicology professor and Archives of African-American Culture at the University of Indiana director Portia Maultsby in an Indiana University press release.
I wish I could attend the AAAMC's "Roots of Techno: Black DJs and the Detroit Scene" conference ("roots" being the key). (MySpace has more basics.)
Closer to now, there's Emily Kratzer's Journal-News article "Romance and the African-American novel" tips folks about a author conference and book fair over the next two days sponsored by organizer and blogger Stephanie Taylor at the Nyack (New York) Library.
Last but not least, Steve Mikulan's LA Weekly article "The Disinvited" takes it to the stage over the Pasadena Playhouse's opening of its now-sold-out run of August Wilson's "Fences."
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Maybe we need to send Lord Vader their way so he can school them:
http://www.djkeltech.com/video/KELTECH_STRIKES_BACK.wmv
— KB, September 29, 2006 10:54 AM
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