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The Sound of Culture
Louis Chude-Sokei
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Description for The Sound of Culture
Paperback. Investigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fiction Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of New England
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Hanover, United States
ISBN
9780819575777
SKU
V9780819575777
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Ref
99-3
About Louis Chude-Sokei
LOUIS CHUDE-SOKEI is a professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. His essays have appeared widely in publications such as African American Review, Transition, and The Believer. He is the author of The Last Darky : Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora, which was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.
Reviews for The Sound of Culture
In this exciting new book, Chude-Sokei details the relationships between science fiction, African slavery, industrialization and technological innovation''.
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