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Black Futures: In the '90s, dance music was in a 'constant state of mutation'
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Black Futures: In the '90s, dance music was in a 'constant state of mutation' brings together cultural criticism, narrative storytelling, and rigorous music history into a single sound work, created within Indonesia’s diverse creative landscape and classified under the Music/Other/Other category to reflect its unique form, which falls outside the boundaries of conventional recorded music releases. Framed as a commemoration of Black History Month, the sound work centers a recounting from World Cafe correspondent John Morrison, who traces the rapid, interconnected rise of distinct dance music subgenres that defined the 1990s, grounding that proliferation in the core observation that animates the work’s title: that throughout that decade, dance music existed in a constant state of mutation, shifting and reimagining itself with a speed that outpaced many mainstream cultural commentators’ ability to catalog or categorize its many evolving forms.
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