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Title: Soundworks
Condition: New
Subtitle: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production
Author: Anthony Reed
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1478011270
EAN: 9781478011279
ISBN: 9781478011279
Publisher: Duke University Press
Genre: History
Topic: Music Dance & Theatre, Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Release Date: 01/08/2021
Description: In Soundworks Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially. Soundwork is Reed’s term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes’s collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka’s work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez’s albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 386g
Book Series: Refiguring American Music
Release Year: 2021

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