Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies
Culture, Technology, and Things to Come
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Beschreibung
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.
A timely and ambitious text founded on contemporary interests in scholarly and media/artistic productionUniquely focuses upon the the sonic in Afrofuturism
Contributes a necessary engagement with race within sound studies
A timely and ambitious text founded on contemporary interests in scholarly and media/artistic production Uniquely focuses upon the the sonic in Afrofuturism Contributes a necessary engagement with race within sound studies
Autor*in
Erik Steinskog
Themen in »Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies«
Afrofuturism Sound Studies musicology dimensions of sound Sensory studies technology Science fiction Futurism sonic experience African American studies speculative fiction mythmaking Black Sound Studies