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Digitopia blues : race, technology, and the American voice / John Sobol.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3479 .S63 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sobol, John, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Music.
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- United States.
- Music and race.
- Music and technology.
- Oral tradition.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 156 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Banff, AB : Banff Centre Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- A lyrical analysis of the intersections between poetic speech and music, intertwined with the history of black/white relations in America.Digitopia Blues is a fluid narrative about orality and literacy -- their individual histories, and their blended futures. Musician and poet John Sobol pinpoints the African American struggle to find a language of revolutionary power through orality and music, as well as the literate poet's impulse to transcend the printed page. Then he locates literacy and orality in the new digital media, in rap, in rave and even in Napster. Sobol's book is intertwined with the stories of the blues, jazz and rock 'n' roll, the powerful world of the printed word and the potential dangers and advantages that digital communications technologies offer people of colour.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0920159893
- OCLC:
- 48942529
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