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This chapter examines the tutorial video series A Sideman 5000 Adventure (2015), in which Canadian-born artist Darsha Hewitt presents her research on early drum machine technology in a format that brings together for the first time her unique didactic and aesthetic interests. The work is presented in the context of Hewitt’s immediate concerns as an artist and educator, with an emphasis on her staging of the creative encounter with obsolete hardware and her critical confrontation with normative standards of technical expertise. A concluding section then considers Hewitt’s approach in relation to the pedagogical problems of equality and emancipation, bringing her work into dialogue with the educational philosophies of Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière.
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Valiquet, P. (2020). “100% Expert!” Mastery and Equality in Darsha Hewitt’s Sideman 5000 Adventure. In: Jóri, A., Lücke, M. (eds) TheNewAge of Electronic Dance Music and Club Culture. Music Business Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39002-0_8
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