Jace Clayton tees off with the first of his two Rewire 2017 appearances, the presentation of his new book, Uproot:Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture.

New York-based artist and writer Jace Clayton is perhaps best known under his alter ego, dj/Rupture. Emerging in 2001 witha three-turntable, sixty-minute mix called ‘Gold Teeth Thief’, Jace Clayton soon found himselfplaying a nightclub in Zagreb, a gallery in Osaka, a former brothel in Sao Paolo, and the American Museum of Natural History.Just as the music world made its fitful, uncertain transition from analog to digital, Jace Clayton landedon the front lines of creative upheavals of art production in the twenty-first century globalized world. His new book, ‘Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture’ is a guided tour of this newly-opened cultural space. With humor, insight, and expertise, Jace Clayton illuminates the connections between a Congolese hotel band and the indie-rock scene, Mexican rodeo teens and Israeli techno, and Whitney Houston and the robotic voices in rural Moroccan song, offering an unparalleled understanding of music in the digital age.