Unlocking the Groove is an excellent book by Mark Butler. It does not focus entirely on Detroit music, rather Butler includes Detroit techno within a larger frame of electronic dance music in general. His analysis of the music and compositional methods is really fascinating and, at least for me, one read through has not been enough to fully grasp his analysis. I plan to sit down with it again soon.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Michael Kuszynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not a music history, but it's a book featuring the compositional > methods of detroit techno artists. > > Seems like a pretty serious academic effort at capturing much of what > compositional structures define founding techno, and some cultural > comment. > > It was on the Indiana U press, which I gather is where a lot of the > academic work that actually exists on the matter is centered. > -- Denise Dalphond Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology Indiana University www.denisedjsdetroit.blogspot.com
