Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Dalphond, Denise M. M.
- Abstract:
- A collection of recorded interviews and transcripts, photographs, press clippings, posters, and research materials related to Detroit techno music. The bulk of the collection materials span the years 2007-2011 and include audio and written interviews with notable Detroit techno artists such as Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Carl Craig, Mike Banks, Anthony Shakir. Also included are video footage from Movement Festival and photographs from Dalphond's dissertation research.
- Extent:
- 5 document cases (2.26 linear feet)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
Denise Dalphond, Ph.D. is an independent ethnomusicologist specializing in Black electronic music, and Detroit house and techno. Her ethnographic research centers on the legacy of electronic music in African American culture and its important place in Detroit's musical history. Her writing on Detroit techno has appeared in African American Music: An Introduction (Routledge 2015) edited by Mellonee Burnim and Portia Maultsby, and Black Lives Matter and Music (Indiana University Press 2018) edited by Stephanie Shonekan and Fernando Orejuela. Dalphond co-founded the Detroit Sound Conservancy in 2011 to help archive and educate about Detroit's musical heritage of all genres and historical periods. Her work has also been featured on Afropop Worldwide, Swedish Television, and online music publications, Little White Earbuds and Create Digital Music. She is an alumnus of AAAMC and Indiana University's Department of Ethnomusicology.
- Scope and Content:
This collection consists of the materials used to write Denise Dalphond's dissertation: "Detroit Players: Wax, Tracks, and Soul in Detroit Electronic Music." Spanning the years 2007-2011, included are Dalphond's original fieldnotes, photographs, promotional materials, blog posts, and recorded interviews with some of the pioneers of Detroit techno such as Juan Atkins, Dereck May, Anthony Shakir and Theo Parrish.
Also included are Detroit-based newspaper clippings, video footage from Movement Festival 2009-2011, and published interviews with techno artists such as Kyle Hall, Mike Banks, Carl Craig, among others.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated on May 4th, 2012.
- Processing information:
Processed by AAAMC staff. Completed in 2022.
- Arrangement:
Arranged in 9 series:
- Series 1: Thesis
- Series 2: Interviews (transcripts)
- Series 3: Fieldnotes
- Series 4: Blog posts (hardcopies)
- Series 5: Detroit Media
- --- Subseries 5.1: Interviews with musicians
- --- Subseries 5.2: Articles about Musicians
- --- Subseries 5.3: Miscellaneous
- Series 6: Promotional materials
- Series 7: Detroit videos
- --- Subseries 7.1: Lessons
- --- Subseries 7.2: Miscellaneous performances
- --- Subseries 7.3: Detroit Electronic Music Festival 2009: Movement videos
- Series 8: Periodicals
- Series 9: Photographs
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed Terms
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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Use of time-based media materials (audio and video) may require production of listening or viewing copies.
Access to streaming audio, moving image, and full resolution digital image materials may currently be restricted to researchers who can authenticate with an IU account or who are physically present on campus. Remote streaming to individual researchers may be allowed with the completion of applicable forms.
For further information about access to online audiovisual materials, contact AAAMC staff at aaamc@indiana.edu.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, including but not limited to the Indiana Public Records Act (5-14-3-2 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Indiana University assumes no responsibility.
Copyright is retained by the creators/authors of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. All requests for copying and publishing materials must be submitted in writing to the Archives of African American Music and Culture, and may require the written permission of the creator(s)/author(s) or donor(s).
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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Smith Research Center, Rooms 180-1812805 East 10th StreetBloomington, Indiana 47408-2601, United States
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- CONTACT:
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812-855-8547aaamc@indiana.edu