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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work, Alexander G. Weheliye contends that the interplay between sound technologies and black music and...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
May 20th 2005
by Duke University Press Books
(first published April 29th 2005)
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Alex Weheliye successfully disturbs and ruptures the carefully constructed dichotomies of modernity/afro-modernity, universalism/particularities, and authenticity/commodification through afro-sonic understandings of history.
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