
Post-Industrial Soundtrack: Exploring the Global Impact of Detroit’s Musical Landscape & Detroit Deluxxe
Queens Museum of Art
New York City Building
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368-3398
3:00pm - 9:00pm
Featuring:
Invincible
Waajeed
DJ Rimarkable
Beyond the automobile, one of Detroit’s greatest contribution to global culture is musical innovation. The unique and challenging social and political context of Detroit has produced artists with a high degree of integrity, musical perfectionism, and groundbreaking technique.
This event will explore how Detroit’s music innovations have evolved side-by-side with and advanced the city’s movements for social transformation. They will also present about Detroit DJs and their role in amplifying and preserving the city’s musical legacy, from Motown, to Rock, Funk, Techno, Hip-Hop and beyond.