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“Straight Up Detroit Shit”: Genre, Authenticity, and Appropriation in Detroit Ghettotech

Mueller, Gavin C.

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2007, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture.
This thesis is an analysis of the genre of Detroit dance music known as ghettotech based primarily on ethnographic data collected from music producers and DJs. After constructing a genealogy tying together ghettotech’s influences from Detroit techno, hip hop, and Miami bass, I discuss how ghettotech rearticulates authenticity discourses present in antecedent genres in the production of its own authenticity. I also examine how ghettotech producers negotiate with Detroit’s economic decline and the increased corporate control of the city’s media, as well as the implications of the increased globalization of the genre.
Jeremy Wallach (Advisor)
116 p.

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  • Mueller, G. C. (2007). “Straight Up Detroit Shit”: Genre, Authenticity, and Appropriation in Detroit Ghettotech [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182534766

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mueller, Gavin. “Straight Up Detroit Shit”: Genre, Authenticity, and Appropriation in Detroit Ghettotech. 2007. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182534766.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mueller, Gavin. "“Straight Up Detroit Shit”: Genre, Authenticity, and Appropriation in Detroit Ghettotech." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1182534766

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)