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On Our Table: Detroit Techno Reading Group

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Feb 26 2025 17:30 - 19:30
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From Fordism to Motown, from Kraftwerk to Afro-futurism and mythical Atlantics, Detroit Techno is both a musical genre that behind its simplified format of 4/4 beats and patchwork of digital samples, conceals a complex sense of history, time, and space. Emerging from an American city fragmented and abandoned by the ruinous trends of a protracted, post-industrial withdrawal, comes a new electronic genre that is at once speculative, non-anthropomorphic, hopeful, even.

Amid these contradictions and fulfilments of Detroit techno, Iniva has chosen February to honour this ground-breaking sound first coming out of the 80’s, investigating its initial influences in a German band of electronic music outliers and post-Motown musical factory production lines, to how the sound found eventual form in the bedrooms of black music pioneers, before eventually finding its way to the dancefloors of the enthusiastic Berlin ravers who were just beginning to make sense of a Europe no longer under the shadow of the Soviet Union.

Join Library Manager Jack Mulvaney in this reading group to explore extracts from Kodwo Eshun and Der Klang Der Familie, continuing from the Lunchtime sharing session the week before.

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iniva is a care-led, mindful and hard-working organisation, driven by a small team with an international reputation. Our vision is for everyone to know the global histories and legacies of internationalism and the Black British Arts Movement and to invest in its future.

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Stuart Hall Library, 16 John Islip St, SW1P 4JU London

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