TY - BOOK ID - 32076489 TI - Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies : Culture, Technology, and Things to Come PY - 2018 SN - 3319660411 3319660403 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Music and technology. KW - Futurism (Music) KW - African Americans KW - Technological innovations. KW - Technology—Sociological aspects. KW - Music. KW - African Americans. KW - Technology in literature. KW - Science and Technology Studies. KW - African American Culture. KW - Literature and Technology/Media. KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Art music KW - Art music, Western KW - Classical music KW - Musical compositions KW - Musical works KW - Serious music KW - Western art music KW - Western music (Western countries) KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32076489 AB - 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 speculative – demonstrated in mythmaking – in frameworks for songs and compositions, in the personas of the artists, and in how the sounds are produced. In highlighting the place of music within the lived experiences of African Americans, the author analyses how the perspectives of Black Sound Studies complement and overlap with the discussion of sonic Afrofuturism. Focusing upon blackness, technology, and sound, this unique text offers key insights in how music partakes in imagining and constructing the future.  This innovative volume will appeal to students and scholars of sound studies, musicology and African American studies. ER -