Africa in Stereo
Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 February 2014
- ISBN 9780199936373
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 160x239x20 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 halftones 0
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Short description:
Africa In Stereo examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the nineteenth century.
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Africa In Stereo examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the nineteenth century. Throughout, Jaji marshals a wide array of critical, archival, literary, visual, and sonic sources to craft an argument centered on the stereophonic echoes between three sites on the African continent emblematic of pan-Africanism (Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa) and black musical cultures in the US (as well as few other places on the diasporic landscape). Rather than take a purely musical tack that traces the influence of African American music on musical repertoires from Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa, Africa In Stereo beautifully shows how a US black popular musical genres inspired a host of writers and filmmakers such as Ousmane Sembene, John Akomfrah, Sol Plaatje, Léopold Senghor, K. Anyidoho, Charlotte Maxeke, Ken Bugul, as well as the glossy visual languages found in the early magazines Bingo (Senegal) and Zonk! (South Africa).
Africa in Stereo raises the bar with new insights into both the sonic and visual realms of art. Transcriptions, performance, poetry, print and new media formats elucidate how Africans on the continent and in the diaspora have been engaged in a continuous dialogue and exchange of cultural particulars throughout the twentieth century. A major contribution is the author's willingness to move beyond a particular village or ethnic group (conventional units of ethnographic analysis) and focus instead on South Africa, Senegal and Ghana, drawing from an interesting array of archival materials to highlight and tease out the forces that made the impulse towards solidarity between Africa and the diaspora possible.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
One: Stereomodernism And Amplifying The Black Atlantic
Two: Sight Reading: Early Black South African Transcriptions of Freedom
Three: Négritude Musicology: Poetry, Performance and Statecraft in Senegal
Four: What Women Want: Selling Hi-Fi in Consumer Magazines and Film
Five: "Soul to Soul": Echo-locating Histories of Slavery and Freedom from Ghana
Six: Pirate's Choice: Hacking into (Post-)Pan-African Futures
Epilogue: Singing Songs
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