20 Mar Eurological and Afrological experimental musics; sampling and the Black Atlantic; the politics of copyright; assemblages, memory, and DJ culture; soul; Afrofuturism and Afropresentism
Required Reading and Listening:
- Miller, Paul D. “Algorhythms” (1996). In Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. Edited by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner. New York: Continuum, 2004. 348-54. (Monday, 7 March)
- Lordi, Emily J. “I’m Tired of Marvin Asking Me What’s Going On: Soul Legacies and the Work of Afropresentism.” In The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s, 150-63. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. (Wednesday, 9 March)
- **Listen to the songs Lordi discusses in at least one of the following sections: “Beyoncé’s Other Women,” “The Punctuality of Erykah Badu,” or “Janelle Monáe’s Pop Afterlives”
Recommended Readings:
- Rose, Tricia. “Soul Sonic Forces: Technology, Orality, and Black Cultural Practice in Rap Music.” In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, 62-98. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1994.
- Lewis, George. “Improvised Music after 1950.” In Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, ed. Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner, 272-84. New York: Continuum, 2004.
- Théberge, Paul. “‘Plugged In’: Technology and Popular Music.” In The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock, ed. Simon Frith, Will Straw, and John Street, 3-25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Here are some questions to guide your response:
–> How does Miller describe the work of the DJ–and its significance? How does he convey this in the essay, not just in terms of the information he shares but also in terms of how he constructs the essay?
–> Select the section on Beyoncé’s "6 Inch," Erykah Badu’s "AmErykahn Promise," or Janelle Monáe’s Electric Lady. How do these works demonstrate Lordi’s points about Afropresentism and the logic of soul? Could you hear the sampling and references she was talking about? Optional: can you think of other music that also engages with these ideas? What music? and why?
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