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Overview"Africa in Stereo analyzes how Africans have engaged with African American music and its representations in the long twentieth century (1890-2011) to offer a new cultural history attesting to pan-Africanism's ongoing and open theoretical potential. Tsitsi Jaji argues that African American popular music appealed to continental Africans as a unit of cultural prestige, a site of pleasure, and most importantly, an expressive form already encoded with strategies of creative resistance to racial hegemony. Ghana, Senegal and South Africa are considered as three distinctive sites where longstanding pan-African political and cultural affiliations gave expression to transnational black solidarity. The book shows how such transnational ties fostered what Jaji terms ""stereomodernism."" Attending to the specificity of various media through which music was transmitted and interpreted-poetry, novels, films, recordings, festivals, live performances and websites-stereomodernism accounts for the role of cultural practice in the emergence of solidarity, tapping music's capacity to refresh our understanding of twentieth-century black transnational ties." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tsitsi Ella Jaji (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9780199936397ISBN 10: 0199936390 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 20 February 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Table of Contents 1. Stereomodernism: Amplifying the Black Atlantic 2. Sight-Reading: Early Black South African Transcriptions of Freedom 3. Négritude Musicology: Poetry, Performance, and Statecraft in Senegal 4. What Women Want: Selling Hi-Fi in Consumer Magazines and Film 5. ""Soul to Soul"": Echolocating Histories of Slavery and Freedom from Ghana 6. Pirates Choice: Hacking into (Post-)Pan-African Futures Epilogue: Singing Stones Bibliography Notes"ReviewsMeticulously researched, historically and politically exigent, and adventurous in its archival reach, Africa in Stereo is a path-breaking book that pulsates to the beat of literary, visual, sonic and cultural studies. Tsitsi Jaji has built a bold new sound system for diaspora studies that challenges us to listen closely to the crosscurrents of African aesthetic technologies that forge and inform our modern world. --Daphne Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 This book is unique in its attentiveness to the intricacies, significances and pleasures of listening, notation and reading. It recasts - with great subtlety and eloquence - our understanding o fthe sonic, visual, and literary practices used by Africans in the elaboration and pursuit of pan-Africanism at home and abroad. --Bhekizizwe Peterson, author of Monarchs, Missionaries, and African Intellectuals Author InformationTsitsi Ella Jaji is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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