Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity #booktok This volume remains critical and

This volume remains critical and deeply insightful across a wide variety of issues regarding interracial relationships — from domestic violence to sexualities

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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity #booktok This volume remains critical andPhonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors, filmmakers, and musicians have actively engaged with recorded sound in their work, Alexander G. Weheliye contends that the interplay between sound technologies and black music and speech enabled the emergence of modern black culture, of what he terms sonic