Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies Culture, Technology, and Things to Come /

• Main Author: Steinskog, Erik (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Sound,
• Subjects: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Music.; African Americans.; Technology in literature.; Science and Technology Studies.; African American Culture.; Literature and Technology/Media.

This book interrogates the meeting point between Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies. Whereas Afrofuturism is often understood primarily in relation to science fiction and speculative fiction, it can also be examined from a sonic perspective.  The sounds of Afrofuturism are deeply embedded in the s...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies
• Chapter 2. Blackness, Technology, and the Changing Same
• Chapter 3. Space and Time
• Chapter 4. Vibrations, Rhythm and Cosmology
• Chapter 5. Interstellar Space, Outer Space, and Inner Space
• Chapter 6. The Sounds of the Future
• Conclusion.