On the Other Side of Time: Afrofuturism and the Sounds of the Future

TY - CHAP

T1 - On the Other Side of Time

T2 - Afrofuturism and the Sounds of the Future

AU - Steinskog, Erik

PY - 2019/1/1

Y1 - 2019/1/1

N2 - A musical imagining of the future and an exposition of a challenge to the normative historical discourse are the subjects of Erik Steinskog’s chapter on Afrofuturism. These topics are dealt with through a discussion of “blackness” and a theoretical discourse that addresses the musical style and polemical and political stance of afrofuturist musicians such as Sun Ra and others following in his path. Steinskog suggests that afrofuturist music is a form of sonic time travel that intertwines the modalities of time represented by notions of past, present, and future, his argument being that reimaginations, reinterpretations, and revisions of a normative past are represented in the technology and music of the black future.

AB - A musical imagining of the future and an exposition of a challenge to the normative historical discourse are the subjects of Erik Steinskog’s chapter on Afrofuturism. These topics are dealt with through a discussion of “blackness” and a theoretical discourse that addresses the musical style and polemical and political stance of afrofuturist musicians such as Sun Ra and others following in his path. Steinskog suggests that afrofuturist music is a form of sonic time travel that intertwines the modalities of time represented by notions of past, present, and future, his argument being that reimaginations, reinterpretations, and revisions of a normative past are represented in the technology and music of the black future.

M3 - Book chapter

VL - 2

SP - 611

EP - 628

BT - The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination

A2 - Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mark

A2 - Walther-Hansen, Mads

A2 - Knakkergaard, Martin

PB - Oxford University Press

CY - New York

ER -