Afrofuturism and Black Sound 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

Autorentext
Erik Steinskog is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Erik's work primarily deals with twentieth and twenty-first century music, with an approach inspired by interdisciplinary cultural studies. He also works with parallels between music and other means of expression, as well as how an understanding based in afrofuturism can go into dialogue with other perspectives and other musical expressions, so far less understood in relation to afrofuturism.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction: Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies.- Chapter 2. Blackness, Technology, and the Changing Same.- Chapter 3. Space and Time.- Chapter 4. Vibrations, Rhythm and Cosmology.- Chapter 5. Interstellar Space, Outer Space, and Inner Space.- Chapter 6. The Sounds of the Future.- Conclusion.