A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Most common types of DJs include: radio DJs, club DJs, mobile DJs, and turntablists. Originally, the "disc" in "disc jockey" referred to shellac and later vinyl records, but nowadays DJ is used as an all-encompassing term to also describe persons who mix music from other recording media such as cassettes, CDs or digital audio files on a CDJ, controller, or even a laptop. DJs may adopt the title "DJ" in front of their real names, adopted pseudonyms, or stage names.
Ghettotech is a genre of electronic music originating from Detroit. It combines elements of Chicago's ghetto house with electro, Detroit techno, Miami bass.
Derrick May, also known as Mayday and Rhythim Is Rhythim, is an electronic musician from Belleville, Michigan, United States. May is credited with pioneering techno music in the 1980s along with collaborators Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson, commonly known as the Belleville Three.
Cyberfeminism is a feminist approach which foregrounds the relationship between cyberspace, the Internet, and technology. It can be used to refer to a philosophy, methodology or community. The term was coined in the early 1990s to describe the work of feminists interested in theorizing, critiquing, exploring and re-making the Internet, cyberspace and new-media technologies in general. The foundational catalyst for the formation of cyberfeminist thought is attributed to Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto", third wave feminism, post-structuralist feminism, riot grrrl culture and the feminist critique of the blatant erasure of women within discussions of technology.
Naomi Long Madgett was an American poet and publisher. Originally a teacher, she later found fame with her award-winning poems and was also the founder and senior editor of Lotus Press, established in 1972, a publisher of poetry books by black poets. Known as "the godmother of African-American poetry", she was the Detroit poet laureate since 2001.
Caledonia Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is a contemporary artist who works with printmaking, sculpture, and stop-motion animation to create immersive installations, community-based projects and public artworks. She is best known as one of the first women Street Artists to gain international recognition. Her work centers the transformative capacity of art as a catalyst for healing within communities experiencing crisis.
Charles McGee was an American artist and educator known for creating paintings, assemblages, and sculptures. His artwork is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. He also had several large-scale public works in the city of Detroit.
KC Adams is a Cree, Ojibway, and British artist and educator based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Terry Peake is an American composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and owner of Robot Academy Music.
Ara Topouzian is an Armenian musician who began playing Armenian and Middle Eastern music in 1991. He plays the kanon.
Lalya Gaye is a digital media artist and interaction designer whose early work was influential in the field of locative media. Currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, she is the founder and director of the international and interdisciplinary digital art practice Attaya Projects.
Bryce William Harding is an American record producer, songwriter, beatboxer, and multi-instrumentalist. Also known by his stage name of Mr. Chips, Harding started playing piano at the age of six. He started playing drums in the fourth grade. He formed his first band by the age of 15 called “We Stand Alone”. He landed a spot as a guest performer with Shania Twain at the Palace of Auburn Hills. He went to Michigan State and started winning local talent shows for beatboxing. He formed an original band at MSU called “Eclyptic Blue”. Eclyptic Blue created a following in East Lansing which led to a performance on the Warped Tour at the Pontiac Silverdome. Harding has performed multiple times at the Apollo Theater in New York as a beatboxer.
Adrienne Maree Brown, often styled adrienne maree brown, is an American author, doula, women's rights activist and black feminist based in Detroit, Michigan. From 2006 to 2010, she was the executive director of the Ruckus Society.
Ethan Daniel Davidson, is an American musician and philanthropist known for producing folk music. Since the late 1990s, Davidson has released ten studio albums.
The Seraphine Collective is a Detroit-based feminist DJ network for women, femme, and non-binary DJs, musicians, and artists. The group provides workshops, organizes events, and provides space and resources for under-resourced and under-represented artists through its collectively run record label and venue.
Akeena Bronson, known professionally as DJ Keezy, is a DJ from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Jennifer Witcher is a house and techno DJ and Producer born in Detroit, founder of the DJ collective 'Women on Wax', and accompanying record label 'Women on Wax Recordings'.
Ahya Simone is an American multidisciplinary artist. Based in Detroit, she is best known for her work as a harpist and for creating and starring in the web series Femme Queen Chronicles.
Shirley Woodson is an American artist and educator known for creating paintings paintings of African American life. Her work is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Woodson is the 2021 Kresge Eminent Artist.
Jayda Guy, known professionally as Jayda G, is a Canadian house music producer and DJ. She was nominated at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in the best electronic dance recording category for her song "Both of Us", and later remixed Dua Lipa's "Cool" for the album Club Future Nostalgia.
