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The Sound of Culture, Paperback / softback Book

The Sound of Culture Paperback / softback

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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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