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Author Steinskog, Erik (Musicologist), author.

Title Afrofuturism and black sound studies : culture, technology, and things to come / Erik Steinskog
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 241 pages)
Series Palgrave studies in sound
Palgrave studies in sound.
Contents 1. Introduction: afrofuturism and black sound studies -- 2. Blackness, technology, and the changing same -- 3. Space and time -- 4. Vibrations, rhythm, and cosmology -- 5. Interstellar space, outer space and inner space -- 6. The sounds of the future -- 7. Conclusion: new suns/sounds -- Discography -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This book interrogates the meeting point between Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies. Whereas Afrofuturism is often understood primarily in relation to science fiction and speculative fiction, it can also be examined from a sonic perspective. The sounds of Afrofuturism are deeply embedded in the speculative - demonstrated in mythmaking - in frameworks for songs and compositions, in the personas of the artists, and in how the sounds are produced. In highlighting the place of music within the lived experiences of African Americans, the author analyses how the perspectives of Black Sound Studies complement and overlap with the discussion of sonic Afrofuturism. Focusing upon blackness, technology, and sound, this unique text offers key insights in how music partakes in imagining and constructing the future. This innovative volume will appeal to students and scholars of sound studies, musicology and African American studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index
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Subject Science fiction -- Social aspects
African Americans -- Race identity.
Science fiction films -- Influence
Futurologists.
African diaspora -- Social conditions
Music and technology.
African Americans -- Music
African Americans -- Music -- Technological innovations
African Americans -- Music.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Music and technology
African Americans
African Americans -- Race identity
Futurologists
Science fiction -- Social aspects
Genre/Form Music
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319660417
3319660411