Adventures In Sonic Fiction
Kodwo Eshun
- Author(s)
- Kodwo Eshun
- Publication
- London : Quartet Books, 1998
- Scope
- 222 Pages, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 0704380250
The classic work on the music of Afrofuturism, from jazz to jungle. Less a critical survey than a manifesto for the neuron-altering powers of "breakbeat science," this ingenious book traces the development of sampladelia from the "jazz fission" era of '68-'75 (with excellent analyses of George Russell's and Herbie Hancock's sonic experiments), through the Parliament/Funkadelic groovescapes of the late '70s (including close scrutiny of Pedro Bell's subversive cover art), through Electro (early '80s synth oriented hip hop) and Detroit Techno, to the present Jungle milieu of time stretching and spatio-acoustics. Eschewing a traditional music-crit vocabulary in favor of a riffing, neologistic verbal poetics, Eshun perfectly captures the sci-fi convolutions of the music he describes, and makes an infectious case for the birth of a new audio-paradigm.
- Keywords
- sound art , afro futurism
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 4: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur
- Extra themes
- Sound Art
- Remarks
- Incl. Bibliographical References
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