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SUMMARY:The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism
DESCRIPTION:andré carrington\, Assistant Professor of African American Literature\, Drexel University\nIconic developments in the artistic and intellectual ethos known as Afrofuturism are closely linked to music: Sun Ra’s experimental jazz\, Parliament Funkadelic’s Mothership\, John Akomfrah’s film Last Angel of History. What else is on the soundtrack to a livable future? How do we pursue further innovation in the human sensorium without reproducing an “audiovisual litany” that conflates rationality with the colonial gaze and isolates Black creativity to moments of sonic disruption? andré carrington’s present research on the cultural politics of race in science fiction radio drama aims to expand the repertoire of literary adaptation studies by reintegrating critical perspectives from marginal and popular sectors of the media landscape into the advancing agendas of Afrofuturism and decolonization. \nandré carrington is a scholar of race\, gender\, and genre in Black and American cultural production. He is currently Assistant Professor of African American literature at Drexel University. His first book\, Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (Minnesota\, 2016) interrogates the cultural politics of race in the fantastic genres through studies of science fiction fanzines\, comics\, film and television\, and other speculative fiction texts.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/andre-carrington-sound-studies-afrofuturism/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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