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  • Detroit Ecstasy
    Farrugia, Rebekah

    Dancecult, 11/2023, Letnik: 15, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    Farrugia discusses electronic dance music, rave culture, and Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) in Detroit. It's been 27 years since she entered the world of electronic dance music and rave culture. It didn't happen in Detroit but across the river in her hometown of Windsor ON. The history of techno as Black music had to a large extent been white-washed, even within Detroit, the Blackest city in the nation, where it had all begun. The inaugural festival took place at Hart Plaza on the city's waterfront over Memorial Day weekend. It was free and organized to showcase the talent that emerged from the city and to gather the region's divided populace. DEMF was also a civic performance that first and foremost was intended for the city and its people. In 2006, DEMF became Movement and it was around this time that we saw an explosion of EDM festivals in the US, which helped ensure its continued success. Movement still takes place every Memorial Day weekend in the same place, at Hart Plaza on the waterfront downtown, but a global fan base has supplanted a local one.