Issue #132 Don’t Techno For an Answer

Don’t Techno For an Answer

Tavia Nyong’o

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The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer, a drum machine released in 1983, was used by early house and techno producers.

Issue #132
December 2022










Notes
1

See . This essay was completed before the author had the opportunity to read DeForrest Brown Jr.’s comprehensive new work Assembling a Black Counterculture (Primary Information, 2022).

2

Dan Sicko, Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk (Wayne State University Press, 2010).

3

Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (Routledge, 1979).

4

See Karen Tongson, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (NYU Press, 2011).

5

Hebdige, Subculture, 44–45.

6

See .

7

C. L. R. James, Beyond a Boundary (Pantheon, 1983).

8

See .

9

Lisa Duggan, “He Does Class and Race, She Does Gender and Sexuality (and Class and Race): Heteronormativity in the Left Academy,” Bully Bloggers, April 4, 2015 .