Uproot: Travels in Twenty-First-Century Music and Digital Culture is the debut book by Jace Clayton, also known as DJ /rupture. The book takes readers around the world to investigate how a broad spectrum of cultures have responded to and incorporated new technologies into their musical forms. Astra Taylor says, “Uproot reminds us that while smartphones put the world at our fingertips, most of us rarely stray from the familiar and formulaic…Uproot is a cosmopolitan clarion call, full of passion and insight as infectious as a pop hook.” Jace Clayton first emerged as a musician and thinker with his pioneering 2001 mix, Gold Teeth Thief. Since then he has collaborated with artists including musician Norah Jones, poet and playwright Elizabeth Alexander, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, N+1, The Fader, Bidoun, and The Washington Post. He will be joined by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, culture editor at Jezebel and a contributing writer at Rookie Magazine.

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