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Detroit: Where the BEAT Learned Precision

Detroit: Where the BEAT Learned Precision

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In this episode of The Mississippi: America’s First Streaming Platform, we travel to Detroit — the city where the beat becomes the future. Built on factories, repetition, and industrial precision, Detroit transformed African-diasporic rhythm into engineered soul through Motown, and later into coded futurism through techno. From the disciplined groove of the Funk Brothers to the electronic pulse that reshaped global club culture, Detroit emerges as a future-making node in the Beat Routes of America. This is the story of how rhythm survived collapse, became technology, and sounded like tomorrow.

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