Jaji, Tsitsi Ella.

Africa in Stereo : Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (289 pages)

Cover -- Africa in Stereo -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Companion Website -- 1. Stereomodernism: Amplifying the Black Atlantic -- 2. Sight-Reading: Early Black South African Transcriptions of Freedom -- 3. Négritude Musicology: Poetry, Performance, and Statecraft in Senegal -- 4. What Women Want: Selling Hi-Fi in Consumer Magazines and Film -- 5. "Soul to Soul": Echolocating Histories of Slavery and Freedom from Ghana -- 6. Pirates Choice: Hacking into (Post-)Pan-African Futures -- Epilogue: Singing Stones -- Bibliography -- Index.

Africa In Stereo examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the nineteenth century.

9780199936380


African literature -- History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) -- Africa.
Music in literature.
Musical films -- History and criticism.
Comparative literature -- African and American.
Comparative literature -- American and African.
Music -- Social aspects -- Africa.


Electronic books.

PL8010.J335 2014eb

809.896