Main entry:

Brar, Dhanveer Singh, author.

Title & Author:

Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski : the sonic ecologies of Black music in the early twenty-first century / Dhanveer Singh Brar

Publication:

London : Goldsmiths Press, [2021]

Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Series:

Sonics series

Restrictions:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165), discography (page 167) , and index
Mineral interiors : house, techno, jungle -- The Blackness of Black electronic dance music -- Teklife -- Ghettoville -- Eski

Summary:

Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski' argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of Blackness that expose and reorder the contemporary racialization of the urban ecologies that can never be reduced simply to their geographical and racial context. Dhanveer Singh Brar makes the case for Black electronic dance music as the cutting-edge aesthetic project of the diaspora, which due to the music's class character makes it possible to reorganize life within the contemporary city. Closely analysing the Footwork scene in South and West Chicago, the Grime scene in East London, and the output of the South London producer Actress, Brar pays attention to the way each of these critically acclaimed musical projects experiments with aesthetic form through an experimentation of the social. Through explicitly theoretical means, Brar foregrounds the sonic specificity of 12" records, EPs, albums, radio broadcasts, and recorded performances to make the case that Footwork, Grime, and Actress dissolve racialized spatial constraints that are thought to surround Black social life. Pushing the critical debates concerning the phonic materiality of Blackness, undercommons, and aesthetic sociality in new directions, Brar rethinks these concepts through concrete examples of contemporary Black electronic dance music production that allows for a theorization of the way Footwork, Grime, and Actress have--through their experiments in Blackness--generated genuine alternatives to the functioning of the city under financialized racial capitalism

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ISBN:

9781912685806 ebook
1912685809 ebook
hardback
9781912685790

Subject:

Electronic dance music Social aspects.
Electronic dance music History and criticism.
Black people Music History and criticism.
Music and race.
Musicians, Black.
Music Social aspects.
Musicians, Black Criticism and interpretation.
Dance music Aspect social.
Dance music Histoire et critique.
Personnes noires Musique Histoire et critique.
Musique et race.
Musique Aspect social.
Musiciens noirs Critique et interprétation.
Musiciens noirs.
Ethnomusicology.
MUSIC.
African American Studies.
Ethnic Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Genres & Styles.
Black people

Form/genre:

Music

Added entries:

Goldsmiths Press sonics series.