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Phonographies : grooves in sonic Afro-modernity / Alexander G. Weheliye.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weheliye, Alexander G., 1968-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Social aspects--History--20th century.
- Popular music.
- Sound--Recording and reproducing--Social aspects.
- Sound.
- Black people--Music--20th century--History and criticism.
- Black people.
- African Americans--Music--20th century--History and criticism.
- African Americans.
- Music and literature--History--20th century.
- Music and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cultural study of the effects of sound technologies--from the phonograph to the Walkman--on African American literature, art, and music in the twentieth century
- Contents:
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822386933
- 0822386933
- OCLC:
- 220950419
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