Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity Weheliye Alexander G.
Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity Weheliye Alexander G. Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies…
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity Weheliye Alexander G.
Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. 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. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work, Alexander G.
Phonographies is a powerful argument that sound technologies are integral to black Black artists used these new possibilities to revamp key notions of modernity-among these, ideas of subjectivity, temporality, and community.
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