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ISBN-10: 1501320726
ISBN-13: 9781501320729
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publish Date: 11/12/2020
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.40" W, 0.50" H

Sonic Intimacy: Reggae Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos

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‘Sonic intimacy’ is a key concept through which sound, human and technological relations can be assessed in relation to racial capitalism. What is sonic intimacy, how is it changing and what is at stake in its transformation, are questions that should concern us all. Through an analysis of alternative music cultures of the Black Atlantic (reggae sound systems, jungle pirate radio and grime YouTube music videos), Malcolm James critically shows how sonic intimacy pertains to modernity’s social, psychic, spatial and temporal movements. This book explores what is urgently at stake in the development of sonic intimacy for human relations and alternative black and anti-capitalist public politics.

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For a world too often rupturing the basic intimacies of social life, James meticulously details the operations of sonic life support systems for Black Britain-a constant remaking of "getting down below" the propulsions of racial capitalism through deploying vibes, hypes and grimes as the medium through which black wisdom, wholeness, craft and mutuality are sutured into the sound of collective breath.
AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Professorial Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, UK
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Details

ISBN-10: 1501320726
ISBN-13: 9781501320729
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publish Date: 11/12/2020
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.40" W, 0.50" H
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