Sunday, September 26, 2021

The Link Between Whitney Houston and the Rise of Auto-Tune in North Africa

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1284-the-link-between-whitney-houston-and-the-rise-of-auto-tune-in-north-africa/

In this excerpt from Jace Clayton's new book Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture, an unlikely connection between Houston's “I Will Always Love You” and the Maghreb region’s embrace of Auto-Tune emerges.