Author

Publication

2016 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

68,500 words, Guess

Page Count

274 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780374533427
  • ISBN-100374533423
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016001906
  • OCLC Control Number937999094
  • Better World Books9780374533427
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC781.6409/05
  • LCCML3918.P67 C63 2016
  • LCCML3918.P67C63 2016

Description

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.

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Other Editions

  • UprootFarrar, Straus and Giroux2016

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