Feenin: R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology

Alexander Ghedi Weheliye traces R&B music’s continued relevance for Black life since the late 1970s, showing how it remains a thriving venue for the continued expression of Black thought and life and a primary archive of the contemporary moment. Contents Track 0.0 Good Days: R&B Music and Critical Fabulation in the Frequencies of the Now Track 1.0 Engendering Phonographies: Sonic Technologies of Blackness A Response to Tavia Nyong’o Track 2.0 “Feenin”: Posthuman Voices in R&B Music Track 3.0 Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies Track 4.0 My Volk to Come: Specters of Peoplehood in Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German Popular Music Track 5.0 “White Brothers with No Soul”: UnTuning the Historiography of Berlin Techno 121 Interview with Annie Goh Track 6.0 New Waves, Shifting Terrains: Prince’s and David Bowie’s Transatlantic Crossovers Track 7.0 “Sounding That Precarious Existence”: On R&B Music, Technology, and Blackness 158 Interview with Nehal El-Hadi Track 8.0 “Scream My Name Like a Protest”: R&B Music as BlackFem Technology of Humanity in the Age of #Blacklivesmatter Track 9.0 808s and Heartbreak Track 10.0 Wayward Shuddering, Beautiful Tremors (AGW’s Quiet Storm Remix) Sources Index