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“Feenin”: POSTHUMAN VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK POPULAR MUSIC
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 21–47.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Alexander G. Weheliye Duke University Press 2002 “Feenin”
POSTHUMAN VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY
BLACK POPULAR MUSIC...
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Bandiri Music, Globalization, and Urban Experience in Nigeria
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 91–112.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Brian Larkin Duke University Press 2004 Bandiri Music, Globalization, and Urban Experience in Nigeria
Beside Kofar Nassarawa, a gate to the mud wall that once ringed the Brian Larkin
Muslim heart of Kano, a city in northern Nigeria, there is a mai gyara...
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Buzz and Rumble: Global Pop Music and Utopian Impulse
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Jayna Brown This essay argues for the concept of a utopian impulse, a liberating power possible in music and dance. With a focus on African music, the essay argues against conventional Eurocentric world-music commodification and points instead to new music movements from Congo and from Angola...
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Hip Hop from ’48 Palestine: Youth, Music, and the Present/Absent
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Social Text (2012) 30 (3 (112)): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., and in the diaspora, and producing an archive of censored histories. The article situates this music within a genealogy of artistic and protest movements by ’48 Palestinians, providing a historical context for the national and political identities articulated in the music of a new generation of ’48 Palestinians...
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Interludes in Madtime: Black Music, Madness, and Metaphysical Syncopation
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 1–31.
Published: 01 December 2017
... the Eurocentric, heteronormative, capitalist, rationalist clock-bound time that prevails in the modern West (what I call “Western Standard Time”). To bear out (and sound out) madtime, this essay reveals those radical temporalities in black expressive cultures, most especially black music. Sampling songs from...
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The Queerness of Industrial Music
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 33–51.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Yetta Howard This article explores how queerness and industrial music work through each other in often contradictory and uneasy ways. This radical complementarity invites some of the most promising qualities of their statuses as antinormative manifestations of sexuality and sound. By bringing...
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Figure 3 The steeply rising prevalence of the terms protest song , protest music , and protest singer from 1920 through 2000, from nearly none before 1940 until the terms became common in the later 1960s. Source: Google Books Ngram Viewer.
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Sound, Knowledge, and the “Immanence of Human Failure”: Rethinking Musical Mechanization through the Phonograph, the Player-Piano, and the Piano
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 13–34.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and the player-piano as aspects of musical mechanization, which had expanded dramatically through the piano in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Both the phonograph and player-piano technologies reverberated in the formation of modern society, the phonograph exemplifying the phenomenological rupture...
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Hedley Jones Quartet using musical instruments and sound recording equipmen...
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“This Is Not the Sound of the Asian Underground”: On the Borders of Britain's New Asian Kool, 1997–2000
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 71–89.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Tariq Jazeel Abstract This article reconstructs a recent historical geography of the late 1990s genre of British Asian dance music that became known as “New Asian Kool” or Asian Underground. Most synonymous with the musician Talvin Singh, whose album OK won the Mercury Music Prize in 1999...
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Black Folk in English Folk
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Social Text (2025) 43 (1 (162)): 91–113.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Les Back; Stevie Back Abstract In 2009 the British National Party caused outrage by placing English folk songs on its website. The result within the folk scene was the Folk Against Fascism movement and a critical discussion over the racial import of the idea of “folk music” in England. This article...
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Architekture and Teklife in the Hyperghetto: The Sonic Ecology of Footwork
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Social Text (2016) 34 (1 (126)): 21–48.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Dhanveer Singh Brar Analyzing “Footwork,” a form of electronic dance music local to South and West Chicago, and now also a major genre within the wider networks of dance music culture, this article presents an argument regarding the constitution of Footwork as black music. Focusing...
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Witchcraft
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 113–133.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Rosalind Morris What explains the social power of music in the United States today? What allows Americans to invoke it as the cause of antisocial violence, as well as of personal expressivity? This essay contemplates the peculiar American invention of a musical culture defined by generation, which...
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Can You Feel the Beat?: Freestyle's Systems of Living, Loving, and Recording
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 107–124.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Alexandra T. Vazquez Freestyle is both a musical genre and, as a multitude of fanzines will tell you, a lifestyle. The playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas evoked our teenage surround when he called it a “system of living.” Described as “android descarga” by music critic Peter Shapiro and “a soap...
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Rap and Revolt in the Arab World
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Social Text (2012) 30 (4 (113)): 25–53.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Nouri Gana This essay approaches the phenomenon of Arab rap music as an emergent form of cultural and communal intelligibility and solidarity; its simultaneous influence on and indebtedness to global hip-hop and youth cultural movements has transformed it into an increasingly transnational...
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Sound and Movement: Vernaculars of Sonic Dissent
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Figure 3 The steeply rising prevalence of the terms protest song , protest music , and protest singer from 1920 through 2000, from nearly none before 1940 until the terms became common in the later 1960s. Source: Google Books Ngram Viewer. ...
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James Baldwin and the Power of Black Muslim Language
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 51–84.
Published: 01 March 2019
... a color and a vocal sound but also a mood and a music. Baldwin draws on hymns of black religion and the black church (“the fire next time,” “down at the cross”) to depict a contrapuntal relationship between the Christian-inflected civil rights movement and Black Muslim mobilization. Using apocalyptic...
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Punk’s Afterlife in Cantina Time
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 57–73.
Published: 01 September 2013
... pedo is also a way to describe a scene or happening that symbolizes a total disregard for abiding by normative time. By extension, pedo in this essay serves to consider punk music through an alternative space-time calculation. With a focus on the Tex-Mex cultural vernacular and iconography...
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This Balaclava Is Too Hot
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 137–145.
Published: 01 September 2013
... position of the group, there has been some resistance to their choice to stage an action within a house of worship (the Cathedral of Christ the Savior)—and even more resistance, it seems, to an implication that there is aesthetic value in their musical performance. This piece explores all...
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“The Cassette Played Poptones”: Punk’s Pop Embrace of the City in Ruins
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 147–158.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Patrick Deer The embrace of the city in ruins was a familiar rallying cry of punk music. From Public Image Limited’s evocation of an urban subject murdered in the countryside while “the cassette played poptones,” to the Clash’s raucous calls for “a riot of our own,” to dub-influenced declarations...
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