Afrosonic Life

Afrosonic Life explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery. Developing and extending debates on Afrosonic cultures, the book attends to the ways in which the acts of technological subversion, experimentation and production complement and interrupt the intellectual project of modernity. Music making processes such as dub, turntablism, hip-hop dj techniques and the remix, innovate methods of expressing subjecthoods beyond the dominant language of Western “Man” and the market. These sonic innovations utilize sound as a methodology to institute a rehumanizing subjectivity in which sound dislodges the hierarchical ordering of racial schemas. Afrosonic Innovations is invested in excavating and elaborating the nuanced and novel ways of music making and sound creation found in the African diaspora. Afrosonic Life explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery. Developing and extending debates on Afrosonic cultures, the book attends to the ways in which the acts of technological subversion, experimentation and production complement and interrupt the intellectual project of modernity. Music making processes such as dub, turntablism, hip-hop dj techniques and the remix, innovate methods of expressing subjecthoods beyond the dominant language of Western “Man” and the market. These sonic innovations utilize sound as a methodology to institute a rehumanizing subjectivity in which sound dislodges the hierarchical ordering of racial schemas. Afrosonic Life is invested in excavating and elaborating the nuanced and novel ways of music making and sound creation found in the African diaspora. "Afrosonic Life explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of transatlantic slavery. The book attends to the ways in which Afrosonic cultures and their acts of technological subversion, experimentation, and production interrupt and undo the colonial project of Western Man over-represented as the Human. Afrosonic Life excavates and elaborates the nuanced and novel ways music making and sound creation in the African diaspora chart possibilities for Black life." -- Book cover Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Soundman/Sound System (S.W. rmx) 2 Turning the Tables 3 Riddim Science: On Living Hip-Hop’s Sonic Innovations 4 Dubbing the Remix and Its Uses Conclusion: Come Rewind/We Were the 1st Robots Bibliography Index "Explores the role sonic innovations in the African diaspora play in articulating methodologies for living the afterlife of slavery"-- Provided by publisher