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Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part two Return of the ankh Kameryn Alexa Carter
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Kameryn Alexa, author.
- Series:
- 33 1/3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Badu, Erykah. New Amerykah--pt. 2.
- Badu, Erykah.
- Badu, Erykah--Criticism and interpretation.
- Rhythm and blues music--History and criticism.
- Rhythm and blues music.
- Soul music--History and criticism.
- Soul music.
- Popular music--United States--1991-2000--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Other Title:
- Return of the ankh
- Place of Publication:
- New York Bloomsbury Academic 2025
- Summary:
- Conceived and first composed on her laptop at home, with some vocals recorded in her bathroom, Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two is lo-fi and highly sophisticated--exquisitely analog and experimentally techy. It begins with a radio signal tuning in, and it asks its listener to participate in their own process of attunement, to listen to familiar sounds anew, and open ourselves to an alternate Amerykah. An organism at once cohesive and discordant, it flows, jams, grooves, bounces. It transforms. Kameryn Alexa Carter explores how the album reaches toward the past and dreams up new futures, in the process suggesting that the veil between the two temporalities is nearly translucent. New Amerykah Part Two occupies a hybrid space: haunted by sonic ghosts of the dead and the living through its samples, interpolations, and lyrical references. It moves through the permeable boundaries between genres. The album and Badu herself are cyborgs--soldering human-made technolog--from the prominent synth, to her titanium suit on the album's cover and the nature-made human--from the children clapping in delight at the end of "20 ft Tall" to the relatable anguish of being a recovering undercover overlover
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Postlapsarian Liner Notes
- 2. Live
- 3. Neo-Soul is Dead
- 4. Dream Sequence (Interlude)
- 5. Triptych
- 6. How Does a Harp Sound Like Incense Burning?
- 7. I Don't Wanna Time Travel No Mo'
- 8. Dream Sequence (for Moog theremini, in D sharp minor)
- 9. Field Notes
- 10. Time With Erykah Badu in it
- 11.
- Dream Sequence in Violet
- 12.
- Computer Love
- 13.
- Dream Sequence (for Fender Rhodes, in 6/4 time)
- 14.
- Cosmic Noise
- 15.
- Dream Sequence from a head wrapped in silk
- 16.
- Freakquency
- 17.
- "Out My Mind": A Sonata in Four Movements
- 18.
- Dream Sequence (Coda)
- Notes
- Other Format:
- Print version Carter, Kameryn Alexa. Erykah Badu's New Amerykah
- ISBN:
- 9798765106495
- OCLC:
- 1520507101
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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