Chicago House Music Oral History Project at Columbia College Chicago

Dr. Micah Salkind

Ongoing

"The Negro and Cybernation" for the First Annual Conference on the Cybercultural Revolution — Cybernetics and Automation

James Boggs

1966

On Repetition in Black Culture

James A. Snead

1981

Machine Soul: A History Of Techno

Jon Savage

1993

The Black Atlantic

Paul Gilroy

1993

The Roots of Techno

Dan Sicko

1994

Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital

Sarah Thornton

1995

The Constructivist Moment: From El Lissitzky to Detroit Techno

Barrett Watten

1997

The Cultural Politics of Dance Music

David Hesmondhalgh

1997

A Tale of Two Cities: Our 1998 Feature on the Racial Politics of Detroit Techno

Mike Rubin

1998

More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures In Sonic Fiction: Concept Engineered

Kodwo Eshun

1998

techno! the new dance sound of detroit

Stuart Cosgrove

1988

Techno Bodies: Muscling with Gender in Contemporary Dance

Ann Cooper Albright

1998

An Interview with James Stinson

Andrew Duke

1999

“Back to the Future”: Hearing, Rituality, and Techno

Tim Becker, Raphael Woebs and Linda Fuji

1999

Techno Rebels

Dan Sicko

1999

“Africa As an Alien Future”: The Middle Passage, Afrofuturism, and Postcolonial Waterworld

Ruth Mayer

2000

In the Mix: Hearing the Souls of Black Folk

Alexander Weheliye

2000

Music; Techno Dances With Jazz

Mike Rubin

2001

Black Street Technology: Detroit Techno and the Information Age

Ben Williams

2001

Existential Strategies: The Making of Community and Politics in the Techno/Rave Scene

Ronald Hitzler and Michaela Pfadenhauer

2002

Further Considerations on Afrofuturism

Kodwo Eshun

2003

In the Flesh Again

Keleigh Casper

2004

Music Is the Message

Hari Kunzru

2004

Post Soul Futurama: African American cultural politics and early Detroit Techno

Sean Abiez

2005

Blackness in Present Future Tense: Broadside Press, Motown Records, and Detroit Techno

Wendy S. Walters

2006

The Aquatic Invasion: A Drexciya Discography Review

Shawn O'Sullivan

2006

Detroit’s rhythmic resistance: Electronic music and community pride

Carlo Vecchiola

2006

Over the Edge: Pushing the Boundaries of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Rhonda Dass, Anthony Guest-Scott, J. Meryl Krieger and Adam Zolkover

2007

Is This the Future? Black Music and Technology Discourse

Nabeel Zuberi

2007

Fear Of A Wet Planet

Kodwo Eshun

2009

Mixed Messages: Resistance and Reappropriation in Rave Culture

Brian L. Ott & Bill D. Herman

2009

The Race For Cyberspace: Information Technology in the Black Diaspora

Julian Bleecker

2010

The Afro-Digital Migration: A DJ’s Journey From Hip Hop to House Music

Lynnée Denise

2011

Submerge in Detroit: Techno’s Creative Response to Urban Crisis

Carlo Vecchiola

2011

Beyond the Hood? Detroit Techno, Underground Resistance, and African American Metropolitan Identity Politics

Christoph Schaub

2011

Hooked on an Affect: Detroit Techno and Dystopian Digital Culture

Richard Pope

2011

Jeff Mills explores his 10 landmark techo releases

Jeff Mills (via FACT )

2011

Frankie Knuckles Interivew Transcript (RBMA Madrid)

Jeff Mao

2011

Building the Beloved Community Through Techno Music Production in Detroit

Deborah Che

2012

Vessels of Transfer: Allegories of Afrofuturism in Jeff Mills and Janelle Monáe

Tobias, C. Van Veen

2012

The Vibe of the Exiles: Aliens, Afropsychedelia and Psyculture

Graham St John

2013

The Roots of Techno: Detroit’s Club Scene 1973-1985

Ashley Zlatopolsky

2014

“White Brothers With No Soul” – Un-Tuning the Historiography of Berlin Techno (p. 40) Interview of Professor Alexander G

Annie Goh

2014

Nightclubbing: An Oral History of Detroit’s Motor

Michaelangelo Matos

2015

How White Kids Stole House Music from Black Aunties

Hassan Ghanny

2016

Real estate, gentrification and nightlife in New York

Max Pearl

2016

When Techno Was House: Chicago’s Impact on the Birth of Techno

Jacob Arnold

2017

Dancing in the Technoculture

Hillegonda C. Rietveld

2018

Race, Class, and Place in the Origins of Techno and Rap Music

William Tsitsos

2018

Gay Black Men Helped Create EDM. Why Do Straight White Men Dominate It?

Katie Bain

2018

Detroit is Techno City, and techno is Black

Imani Mixon

2018

Inside ‘Neptune’s Lair’: Drexciya, Dystopia and Afrofuturism

Charlie Mills

2018

Keeping it Real

Ash Lauryn

2019

Techno is technocracy

DeForrest Brown Jr.

2019

Together, Always Together: On the Erotic Potential of Electronic Punk Music

Debby Vendredi

2019

2010-19: Reflections Of A Black Woman In Dance Music

Ash Lauryn

2020

Reverse Hallucinations in the Lower Delta

Ryan C. Clarke

2020

Drexciya Research Lab: Interviews/Press/Info Sheets/etc.

Drexciya Research Lab

2020

‘Make techno black again’: a social experiment subverts whitewashing in clubs

Andre Wheeler

2020

The Untold Story Of The Detroit Regional Music Conference

Tajh Morris

2020

Harnessed the Storm: Rereading Drexicya with The Black Atlantic

Mick Harvey

2020

A Conversation on the Bleaching of Techno: How Appropriation is Normalized and Preserved

Axmed Maxamed and Mathys Rennela

2020

Dance Music Pioneer Kevin Saunderson: The Scene Is Still Failing Black Artists

Katie Bain

2020

Black Quantum Futurism Blog

Camae Ayewa & Rasheedah Phillips

2020 (last accessed on Jun 21, 2022)

Detroit: The Blueprint Of Techno

Much Music

1998

Techno City: What is Detroit Techno?

Ben Cohen

2000

Pump Up the Volume: A History of House Music

Channel 4

2001

Drexciya Interview

Liz Copeland

2002

Maestro

Josell Ramos

2003

Mad Mike Banks UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE Interview (pt. 1)

True to the Underground

2004

Mad Mike Banks UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE Interview (pt. 2)

True to the Underground

2004

High Tech Soul: The creation of Techno Music

Gary Bredow

2006

Roots of Techno: Black DJs and the Detroit Scene. Session 1

Catherine Burkhart, Lina Stephens Sulaiman Mausi, Denise Dalphond

2006

Roots of Techno: Black DJs and the Detroit Scene. Session 2

Rick Wilhite, Mike Clark, Terrence Parker, Cornelius Harris, Denise Dalphond

2006

Roots of Techno: Black DJs and the Detroit Scene. Session 3 (End of Session 2)

DJ Minx, Theo Parish, Marcellus Pittman, Denise Dalphond

2006

Romanthony Slices (1-09) Feature

Electronic Beats

2009

Theo Parrish Slices (1-12) Feature

Electronic Beats

2012

The Story of When House Music Went Global

All 4

2017

Black to Techno

Jenn Nkiru

2019

Dance Music Image Archive

@There_Is_No_Planet_Earth

2022

Social Aid & Pleasure

Ryan Clarke

Premiered at Dweller 2022

Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism

Kwame Nkrumah

1965

SNCC Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 4

July 1967

The Movement Newspaper, Vol. 3, No. 9

September 1967

American Blacks and the Arab Israeli Conflict

Lewis Young

1972

Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytical History

Robert Allen

1990

The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries

Rosemary Sayigh

2008

Israel: A Colonial-Settler State

Maxmine Rodinson

2008

My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary

Leila Khalid

2008

Racing the Question: Israel/Palestine and U.S. Imperial Culture

Keith Feldman

2008

The Impact of Zionism on Black and Arab-Americans

Stuart Knee

2010

Towards an Afro-Arab Diasporic Culture: The Translational Practices of David Graham, Du Bois, and ﻧﺤﻮ ﺛﻘﺎﻓﺔ ﺷﺘﺎﺕ ﻋﺮﺑﻴﺔ-ﺃﻓﺮﻳﻘﻴﺔ: ﻣﻤﺎﺭﺳﺎﺕ ﺍﻟﺘﺮﺟﻤﺔ ﻋﻨﺪ ﺩﻳﭭﻴﺪ ﺟﺮﺍﻫﺎﻡ ﺩﻭ ﺑﻮﻳﺲ

Keith Feldman and كيث فيلدمانان

2011

Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary

Alex Lubin

2014

Black Panther Palestine

Alex Lubin

2016

The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight Against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s–1980s

Pamela Pennock

2017

“The US and Israel Make the Connections For Us”: Anti-Imperialism and Black-Palestine Solidarity

Nadine Naber

2017

Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color

Michael R. Fischbach

2018

The Black Civil Rights Movement And Zionism

Lenni Brenner

Malcolm X on Zionism

Malcolm X (via The Egyptian Gazette)

Sept. 17, 1964

Interview with Kwame Toure: Common Struggle of The Palestinian and African People

PLO Information Bulletin

1-15 September 1979