Re:The Battle over Techno’s Origins
by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:45AM
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It's not (just) journalists doing this.
There's a serious rift in the world between those who view (Detroit) techno as "Kraftwerk, but a bit different" and "yes, inspired in part by Kraftwerk but actually its own genre". There's an important racial/cultural subtext to those two origin stories as well.
I've seen this argument play out on various blogs, podcasts and even a couple of college level courses over the past 10 years.
Massive amount of ignorance demonstrated here by blaming journalists. This has been a heavy debate within the dance music scene as far back as the earliest days of the Belleville Three. Nearly every fan/everyone involved in the scene has an opinion as to where the genesis was.
Nothing worse than when journalists try to turn the genesis of musical genres into a defined, definite thing and play the game of accusing some of "stealing" from others. It's absurd, and defies everything about art.