"Describes the beginnings and evolution of techno, dance, and electronica music, spotlighting important artists and songs"--Provided by publisher.

What started as an underground party business--run and dominated by youths and hustlers--grew into the music business's greatest and biggest success. This is the first-ever big-picture history of the American electronic dance music underground, viewed through the lens of nineteen parties over thirty years--from the black, gay underground clubs of Chicago and Detroit's elite teen-party scene through nineties "electronica" to today's EDM-festival juggernaut,...