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Techno tourism in Detroit – what do visitors owe the city that created the music?

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par Carla Vecchiola, Lecturer in History, University of Michigan-Dearborn

In 1997, I was one of relatively few tourists in Detroit.

Well before #vanlife was a hashtag, I left my home state of California and drove around the country for five months living in a 1982 Volkswagen Vanagon. Though I had few planned stops, Detroit was on my itinerary because I was a raver and I knew that techno originated in Detroit.

After my trip, I applied to grad school at the University of Michigan with the plan to make Detroit electronic music my research topic. I moved from Ann Arbor to Detroit…

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