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DeForrest Brown, Jr.
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03-05-2024
Is a North American theorist, journalist, and curator (he describes himself as an ex-American) whose work spans theoretical research, writing, curating and artistic production. Brown, Jr. explores the links between the black experience in industrial work systems and black innovation in electronic music. He also claims artistic expressions such as techno for blackness from different fronts, including the Make Techno Black Again campaign, which celebrates the origins of this style of electronic music, its roots and the experience of the African-American working class. He expresses himself musically as Speaker Music, a proposal with which he extends his interest in hybrid media and proposes building bridges between private space and public space. In 2020 he released the album Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry (Planet Mu) and in 2021 he will publish the book Assembling a Black Counter Culture (Primary Information), a general history of techno focused on the black experience.
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