Friday, January 01, 2016

The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America by Michaelangelo Matos – review | Books | The Guardian

The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America:



"The meat of his thesis is that the medium is the message. As he puts it: “The rise of the US rave scene and the rise of the internet, besides being concurrent, mirrored one another in many ways. Both mixed rhetorical utopianism with insider snobbery ... As a style whose digital nature was encoded into its very name, techno is the music of early adopters.”"


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