{"product_id":"phonographies-grooves-in-sonic-afromodernity-9780822335900","title":"Phonographies  Grooves in Sonic AfroModernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCultural study of the effects of sound technologies--from the phonograph to the Walkman--on African American literature, art, and music in the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePhonographies\u003c\/i\u003e is extraordinary. Its acute, brilliant, and unprecedented attention to technology and its relation to music, literature, and Afro-diasporic subjectivity and citizenship make it one of the most important and significant contributions to black studies, cultural studies, and aesthetic theory in the last ten years. \u003ci\u003ePhonographies \u003c\/i\u003edemands, and will abundantly repay, the careful attention of its readers and listeners.”—Fred Moten, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A glorious and important contribution to the literatures on music technologies, black music, black writing, and race studies, \u003ci\u003ePhonographies\u003c\/i\u003e is unique. For the first time, we have a theory that suggests how powerful black culture is in the course of modernity and that accounts for the almost global dominance of black modes of musicality in world cultures since the advent of recorded sound.”—John Corbett, author of \u003ci\u003eExtended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Exacting, incisive, and stylistically engaging from start to finish, \u003ci\u003ePhonographies\u003c\/i\u003e is the most far-reaching reconfiguration of the vexed relations between Afrodiasporic modernity, phonography, aurality, and subjectivity published to date. Alexander Weheliye stages a rich set of encounters between DuBois and Ellison, Tricky and Gilroy, Derrida and Armstrong, Glissant and The Fugees in order to open up the entangled topography he terms ‘sonic Afro-modernity.’ In so doing, Weheliye has produced a discursive intervention that is thrilling in its detail, rigorous in its arguments, and profound in its implications. A deeply considered, important volume.”—Kodwo Eshun, author of \u003ci\u003eMore Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this outstanding book, Alexander G. Weheliye combines sound ‘phono’ and writing ‘graph’ in the classic texts of Ralph Ellison’s \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man \u003c\/i\u003eand W. E. B Du Bois’s \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e to create \u003ci\u003ePhonographies : Grooves in Sonic Afro-modernity\u003c\/i\u003e. This book is an original examination of sound (often comparing it to visual representations), music, music technologies (from the phonograph to iPods) and disk jockeying. \u003ci\u003ePhonographies\u003c\/i\u003e includes a multitude of well-researched references to key writers in African American studies, music history, literary criticism and cultural studies, drawing upon the work of Althusser, Derrida, Deleuze, Freud, and Lacan, amongst others, to inform views. . . . [\u003ci\u003ePhonographies\u003c\/i\u003e is] definitely worth reading more than once; it is a highly significant text for the field of African American Studies.” -- Emma Louise Kilkelly * Journal of American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePhonographies\u003c\/i\u003e is often original and challenging . . . strong interdisciplinary connections are made and new insights emerge, and the seamless manner in which he does it startles most of all.\" * The Wire *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Intro: It’s Beginning to Feel Like . . . 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Hearing Sonic Afro-Modernity 19\u003cbr\u003e 2. “I Am I Be”: A Subject of Sonic Afro-Modernity 46\u003cbr\u003e 3. In the Mix 73\u003cbr\u003e 4. Consuming Sonic Technologies 106\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sounding Diasporic Citizenship 145\u003cbr\u003e Outro: Thinking Sound\/Sound Thinking (Slipping into the Breaks Remix) 199\u003cbr\u003e Notes 211\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 257\u003cbr\u003e Index 279","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371774845271,"sku":"9780822335900","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822335900.jpg?v=1730154506","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/phonographies-grooves-in-sonic-afromodernity-9780822335900","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}