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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Afro-futurism"”.
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Making Hammers With Art: The Producer of House and Techno
… by a discussion of German modernism, disco, and afro-futurism, which are identified as the chief aesthetics legacies that shape house and techno production. I then consider the material conditions and challenges producers face as working musicians. Drawing from in-studio fieldwork conducted in …
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The significance of composition in supplementing extratextual narrative: a topical cue analysis of Star Trek: discovery to provide narrative meaning within instrumentation
… of racial equality through the allusion to Afro-futurism in the racially volatile mid-century, to the hyper-representation of queer identities during a time of ideological turbulence in the American landscape of the late 2010s. Empowerment and idealism-to-a-fault have always permeated …
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"My Music is Words" -- The Poetics of Sun Ra
This thesis argues for a critical examination of the published writings of Le Sony'r Ra, also known as Sun Ra, a groundbreaking jazz musician and philosopher of the 20th century. Recent redistribution of Sun Ra's musical output, which includes hundreds of releases on many record labels from the …