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The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian science fiction, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence. All of these facets, according to Louis Chude-Sokei, are part of a history in which music has been central to the equation that links blacks and machines. As Chude-Sokei shows, science fiction itself has roots in racial anxieties and he traces those anxieties across two centuries and a range of writers and thinkers--from Samuel Butler, Herman Melville, and Edgar Rice Burroughs to Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, and Donna Haraway, to Norbert Weiner, Sylvia Wynter, and Samuel R. Delany. The book includes a specially curated playlist, featuring songs mentioned in the book, to help contextualize its arguments.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Sound of Culture
• Subtitle: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
• Author: Louis Chude-Sokei
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9780819575777
• ISBN: 0819575771
• ID: 09275191
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Weight: 400 g
• Dimensions: 158 × 236 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. January 2016

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