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

Erik Steinskog

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

Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination
Editors	Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mads Walther-Hansen, Martin Knakkergaard
Volume	2
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	1 Jan 2019
Pages	611-628
Chapter	30
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019

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On the Other Side of Time : Afrofuturism and the Sounds of the Future. / Steinskog, Erik.

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination . ed. / Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard; Mads Walther-Hansen; Martin Knakkergaard. Vol. 2 New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. p. 611-628.

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