The Sound of Culture (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Wesleyan University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2015
Authors:	Louis Chude-Sokei
Dimensions:	157 x 236 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-8195-7577-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	0-8195-7577-1
Barcode:	9780819575777

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