Phonographies Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity

Name: Phonographies Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
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ISBN: 9780822335900

ISBN-10: 0822335905

ISBN-13: 9780822335900

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alexander Ghedi Weheliye

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Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work, Alexander G. Weheliye contends that the interplay between sound technologies and black music and speech enabled the emergence of modern black culture, of what he terms "sonic Afro-modernity." He shows that by separating music and speech from their human sources, sound-recording technologies beginning with the phonograph generated new modes of thinking, being, and becoming. Black artists used these new possibilities…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.13" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Intro: It's Beginning to Feel Like...



Hearing Sonic Afro-Modernity



"I Am I Be": A Subject of Sonic Afro-Modernity



In the Mix



Consuming Sonic Technologies



Sounding Diasporic Citizenship


Outro: Thinking Sound/Sound Thinking (Slipping into the Breaks Remix)


Notes


Works Cited