On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Data General wrote: > Dear 313, > > I have recently (today) finished the rough draft of my thesis on Detroit > techno. It deals with some of the things that are brought up so often on > this list, particularly race. I interviewed some incredible people > including Dan Sicko, Brendan Gillen, and Anthony Shakir, and I dug through > a lot of old archives and microfilms. > > It can get kind of theoretical at points, but I guess that's the way it > goes with academic work. Still, I did my best to make it readable. > Please consider this my contribution to the many threads on techno and > race. And if you feel like it, let me know what you think. I'm open to > revisions and suggestions.
I've been thinking about doing a work like this for sometime...but because i'm a political scientist I was going to sit on it until I got tenure. This is publishable, with some minor work. Because it is publishable I make the following suggestions to you and everyone else: 1. Either take this off of the web, or somehow "watermark" it so no one else can claim it. If this were a small essay--like the thing I wrote about the demf sometime ago--I wouldn't ask you to take such a position. but this is something that can easily contribute to scholarship AND to your own pockets. 2. Get people to ask permission to use it...or even to send the url to others. THere are two people I think would really like this piece, for example, but I don't think it is appropriate in this case to send it until I get the ok from you. This way you know (at least a little) who has access to it. 3. DEVELOP THIS DEVELOP THIS DEVELOP THIS. this is good enough to make a career out of if you work at it. and if others on this list are similarly inclined, this type of work can lead to the sort of cultural revolution i've alluded to elsewhere.... peace lks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
