Hill Black Soundscapes White Stages

The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1060-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: The Callaloo African Diaspora Series

An innovative look at the dynamic role of sound in the culture of the African Diaspora as found in poetry, film, travel narratives, and popular music.

Black Soundscapes White Stages explores the role of sound in understanding the African Diaspora on both sides of the Atlantic, from the City of Light to the islands of the French Antilles. From the writings of European travelers in the seventeenth century to short-wave radio transmissions in the early twentieth century, Edwin C. Hill Jr. uses music, folk song, film, and poetry to listen for the tragic cri nègre.

Building a conceptualization of black Atlantic sound inspired by Frantz Fanon's pioneering work on colonial speech and desire, Hill contends that sound constitutes a terrain of contestation, both violent and pleasurable, where colonial and anti-colonial ideas about race and gender are critically imagined, inscribed, explored, and resisted. In the process, this book explores the dreams and realizations of black diasporic mobility and separation as represented by some of its most powerful soundtexts and cultural practitioners, and it poses questions about their legacies for us today.

In the process, thee dreams and realities of Black Atlantic mobility and separation as represented by some of its most powerful soundtexts and cultural practitioners, such as the poetry of Léon-Gontran Damas—a founder of the Négritude movement—and Josephine Baker’s performance in the 1935 film Princesse Tam Tam. As the first in Johns Hopkins’s new series on the African Diaspora, this book offers new insight into the legacies of these exceptional artists and their global influence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill Jr., Edwin C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Le Tumulte Noir (Part 1): French Imperial Soundscapes and the New World
1. "Adieu Madras, Adieu Foulard": The Doudou's Colonial Complaint
2. "To Begin the Biguine": Re-membering Antillean Musical Time
3. La Baker: Princesse Tam Tam and the Doudou's Signature Dilemma
4. Negritude Drum Circles: The Tam-Tam and the Beat
5. Le Poste Colonial: Short-Wave Colonial Radio and Negritude's Poetic Technologies
Conclusion
Notes from the Sound Field
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hill Jr., Edwin C.
Edwin C. Hill Jr. is an assistant professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California.