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Rock music --- Science fiction in music. --- History and criticism.
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This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously as a concept album and a visual album or “emotion picture” in spring 2018. In the previous decade, Janelle Monáe has developed into a global media personality who effortlessly unites speculative world-building with social and political activism. Across the intersecting album and film that together make up Dirty Computer, Monáe brings together the science-fictional themes that informed her previous work, resulting in a powerfully focused artistic and political statement. While the music on the album can be enjoyed as an accessible collection of pop tracks, the accompanying film, music videos, and media paratexts add layers of meaning that combine speculative world-building with anti-racist activism. This unique convergence of energies, ideas, and media platforms has made Dirty Computer a new classic of Afrofuturist science fiction.
Afrofuturism. --- Science fiction in music. --- Music --- Arts, American --- Popular music. --- African Americans. --- Culture. --- Popular Culture. --- Popular Music. --- African American Culture. --- Contemporary Music. --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Criticism --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Black people --- Music, Popular --- Music, Popular (Songs, etc.) --- Pop music --- Popular songs --- Popular vocal music --- Songs, Popular --- Vocal music, Popular --- Cover versions --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects
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"In just over a decade, Janelle Monáe has become a formidable figure in global media culture. Her Afrofuturist concept albums and "emotion pictures" established Monáe as an ambitious innovator who draws on science fiction to rewire our understanding of race and gender. As an actor, her performances have explored these same vectors across other media, while her music provides the soundtrack for socially engaged media productions, from Us to David Byrne's American Utopia. Monáe's increasingly central presence in the global media landscape makes her an ideal figure to investigate the dynamics between media, race, and gender. By interweaving its analysis of Monáe's own music and screen performances with other works that extend these vectors, Power Up! The Transmedia Afrofuturism of Janelle Monáe gives an innovative, accessible, and inspiring account of the transformative role popular media can play in our understanding of race, gender, sexuality, and capitalism"--
Identite sexuelle dans la musique. --- Science-fiction dans la musique. --- Medias et musique. --- Musique populaire --- Gender identity in music. --- Afrofuturism. --- Science fiction in music. --- Mass media and music. --- Popular music --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- Monáe, Janelle --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Janelle Monáe, global media, Afrofuturist, emotion pictures, innovator, science fiction, sci-fi, race, gender, race studies, gender studies, actor, music, soundtrack, socially engaged, media production, David Byrne’s American Utopia, screen performance, Transmedia, sexuality, capitalism, black feminism, intersectionality, POSTHUMANISM, POSTCAPITALISM, cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science, philosophy of history, intersection, African diaspora, culture, technology, blackness, futuristic, black history, black culture, African-American, speculative, reimagining, Black to the Future, rapper, record producer, model, Atlantic Records, Wondaland Arts Society, Grammy Award, MTV Video Music Award, ASCAP Vanguard Award.
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