02966nam 2200445 450 991072506560332120230407135117.01-912685-80-9(CKB)4100000011868068(MiAaPQ)EBC6536788(EXLCZ)99410000001186806820211020d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTeklife, Ghettoville, Eski the sonic ecologies of Black music in the early 21st century /Dhanveer Singh BrarLondon, England :Goldsmiths Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (155 pages)Goldsmiths Press Sonics Series1-912685-79-5 Mineral interiors : house, techno, jungle -- The Blackness of Black electronic dance music -- Teklife -- Ghettoville -- Eski."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."--Jacket flap.Goldsmiths Press sonics series.Black peopleMusicMusic and raceMusic.fastBlack peopleMusic and race.781.7296005Brar Dhanveer Singhaut1359825MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910725065603321Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski3374943UNINA