Michaelangelo Matos / The Underground is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America (in conversation with Geeta Dayal)

Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 7:30pm
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Music journalist Michaelangelo Matos presents The Underground is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America, the first book to record the history of the electronic dance music in the US. Matos maps the scene’s humble beginnings from warehouse raves in Detroit and Chicago to its current apex of sold out arenas all over the world. The book tells the bizarre yet fascinating story of how drug-fueled, misfit subculture has evolved to dominate mainstream pop culture today. Join Michaelangelo Matos and Geeta Dayal for a talk about music, drugs, raves, and remixes.

 

MICHAELANGELO MATOS attended his first rave in 1993 and began writing professionally about electronic dance music a few years later. A regular contributor to Rolling Stone, NPR, Red Bull Music Academy Magazine, Wondering Sound, and Beatport, he is the author of an acclaimed volume on Prince’s Sign ‘O’ the Times for Continuum’s 33 1/3 monograph series. He lives in Brooklyn.

 

Geeta Dayal is a frequent contributor to Wired and many other publications, writing on art, culture, technology, and design. She is the author of Another Green World, a book on Brian Eno.

 

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