Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 08/16/2016
ISBN: 9780374533427
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/16/2016
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2016
Library Journal 07/01/2016 pg. 86
Booklist 08/01/2016 pg. 15