Juan Atkins

MUSIC
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
5:00 PM

Backyard, H0l0
1090 Wyckoff Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens

$34.40
https://www.facebook.com/events/352429892952422/

A certain rearguard faction in Jazz likes to call that form "America's Classical Music" — as if being the greatest musical effloresence in the 20th Century (a period with A LOT of great music) weren't enough without invoking supposed European prestige. I'd like to put in a good word for Detroit Techno, though: a form that actually sounded like contemporary expressions of classical music — and that has influenced subsequent classical iterations. Juan Atkins was one of the pioneers of Detroit Techno back in the '80s.

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